Career Quote by Fran Lebowitz

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write…

— Fran Lebowitz

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

— Georges Simenon

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

— Anna Quindlen

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

— Rebecca Serle

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Writing is a very isolating occupation.

— Ellen Ullman

Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction.

— Neal Gabler

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

— Holly Johnson

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

— Dan Simmons

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

— Caroline B. Cooney

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

— Vicki Baum

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

— Shelby Foote