Career Quote by Marcel Achard

“Impatience may be a virtue if you have to write for today's generation.”

— Haresh Sippy

I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly…

— Daniel Handler

“Write for the pleasure of writing, but share it for the pleasure of others.”

— Lon Grover

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

— Eudora Welty

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

— Ruskin Bond

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to…

— J. D. Salinger

“I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.”

— J.D. Salinger

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

— Alexander Pushkin

In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about…

— Laura Moser

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

— Michael Lewis

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a…

— Ray Bradbury

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you…

— George V. Higgins

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They…

— Paulo Coelho

“If you don’t put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There’s the writer and there’s the author.…

— Andre Dubus III

I think a lot of people assume you need to be born into a special creative family to have a career as a writer.…

— Jane Fallon