Art Quote by Fukuzawa Yukichi

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

— Polly Adler

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

— Rebecca Serle

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of…

— Vera Brittain

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

— H. L. Mencken

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

— Jamaica Kincaid

It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so…

— Alexander Chee

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

— Georges Simenon

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits…

— David Hume

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

— Roald Dahl

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're…

— Cris Mazza