Fancy Quote by Julie Powell

I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay…

— Miguel Syjuco

I like to work. I mean, part of it for me is that I was a struggling actor, could barely pay my rent, until…

— Megan Mullally

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

— Chad Harbach

I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake up and…

— Colson Whitehead

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of…

— Maria Semple

For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise,…

— Will Allison

I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time I wrote…

— Lauren Groff

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a…

— Bill Hader

I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment.…

— Andrew Yang

In my 20s, I was a freelance writer with little money and living in a rabbit warren one-and-a-half-bedroom with a roommate.

— Alissa Quart

Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper.…

— David Grann

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

— Jean-Marc Vallee