Agents Quote by John Hodgman

I really enjoy work to a purpose. Maybe that makes me kind of strange. In some ways - and this is going to sound…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I've never had a terrible job. I've been a cook, waitress, bookseller, teacher, freelance writer. I know what the bad jobs are, and I…

— Ann Patchett

The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.

— E. J. Dionne

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I…

— Kumail Nanjiani

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing…

— Franz Kafka

The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.

— Jemaine Clement

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some…

— William S. Burroughs

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— Pat Barker

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

— Chad Harbach

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the…

— Roy Clark