Career Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad…

— Robert Lowell

“We writers are a crazy group. I can't think of any other profession where the actual work is deep within, uncomfortable, and wanting out.”

— C.J. Heck

“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely…

— Sara Sheridan

“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”

— Jules Renard 1890

“Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people…

— Rebecca Solnit

“If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path. You know…

— M. Kirin

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. Start…

— E.B. White

“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.”

— Christy Hall

“Plenty of times I've seen writers, famous novelists and essayists, even poets, with names you'd recognize and whose work I admire, drift through these…

— Richard Ford

“When you are a writer, you can daydream all day and yet claim that you're working.”

— Dodong Charing