Jobs Quote by Jamaica Kincaid

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you…

— Fay Weldon

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

— Leo Rosten

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write…

— Agatha Christie

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.

— Tracy Kidder

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

— Richard Bach

“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come…

— Sara Sheridan

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

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Rebecca Serle

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

— Georges Simenon