Choice Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett

“…because you didn’t have a choice, because that’s what work is , right?”

— Mathew Henderson

“Writing is not a choice for me, it is a calling.”

— Brenda B. Taylor

“Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the idea to…

— Haruki Murakami

“I didn't choose to write.....writing chose me”

— Dara J. Nelson

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

— Isabel Allende

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

— Walter Jon Williams

“I never really chose to be a writer. It's just always been what I do. Writing chose me...”

— Té Russ

[Writing] is harder than you think. You'll be rejected often. If you do it for money, you'll quit. Love it or don't do it.

— Paul S. Kemp

“Most people, faced with two difficult choices, prefer not to choose at all.”

— Kenneth Eade

“A writer is someone who has no choice”

— Andrew Updegrove

“My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little…

— Anonymous

“As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it.”

— WH Auden