Career Quote by Dorothy Parker

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some…

— William S. Burroughs

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

— Rebecca Serle

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and…

— Richard Powers

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure…

— Marcel Achard

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

— Rod McKuen

Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty…

— W. P. Kinsella

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

— Leonard Bishop

“Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.”

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

“Being a writer is something I love to do, plus I get independence. It’s a great job for a woman because she can work…

— Anne Mather

“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong…

— George Orwell