Career Quote by MacKenzie Scott

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

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

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

— Anna Quindlen

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

— David Shapiro

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

— Rebecca Serle

I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good…

— John Grisham

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you…

— Mark Twain

I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to…

— Elizabeth Strout

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

— Rem Koolhaas

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

— Rosemary Mahoney

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't…

— Rod Serling