Acting Quote by Lennie James

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

— Katherine Anne Porter

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

I come from a working-class background and it wasn't in my world to be a writer - I had no direct access to those…

— Roisin Conaty

I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how…

— David Grann

If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced…

— Rod Serling

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

— James L. Brooks

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in…

— Stephen King

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

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

There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was…

— Elizabeth Berg

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest…

— V. S. Naipaul

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

— Laurell K. Hamilton