Art Quote by Georges Simenon

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

— Georges Simenon

An artist doesn't depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn't depend on mood, certainly not if you're earning your living…

— Michael Ventura

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

— William Saroyan

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have…

— Ann Patchett

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Rebecca Serle

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

— Irving Stone

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

— Isabel Allende

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head…

— William Zinsser

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and…

— Angelina Jolie

Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market…

— Nell Zink

Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds…

— Paul Theroux