Baffled Quote by Dervla Murphy

People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically…

— Quentin S. Crisp

People still struggle with this notion of gifted writers somehow being in touch with a higher power, but it's all about showing up and…

— Laura Lippman

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to…

— Amy Tan

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who…

— Susan Orlean

I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it…

— Mary Oliver

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that…

— Denise Duhamel

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

— Nora Roberts

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible…

— Susan Cheever

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many…

— Jennifer Egan

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

— Rebecca Serle

I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is…

— Leslie Jamison