Career Quote by Gregory Mcdonald

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

— Georges Simenon

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 not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it…

— Etgar Keret

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

— Stephen King

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Writing is making sense of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

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

— Neal Gabler

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

— Katherine Anne Porter

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

— Julia Cameron