Holy Quote by Laeta Kalogridis

I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require that you…

— John Cooper Clarke

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

— Rebecca Serle

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it…

— Amy Bloom

I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to…

— Dorothy Allison

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

If you're a writer, you're always working.

— Alan Furst

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

— J. B. Priestley

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

— Maureen Johnson

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.

— Jamaica Kincaid

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.

— Tomi Adeyemi