Career Quote by Maria Brink

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

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

— Sloan Wilson

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

— J. K. Rowling

I just write what I want to write.

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Anna Quindlen

I write what I want to write.

— Jorja Smith

Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.

— Michael Hyatt

I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid.

— Courtney A. Kemp

“Professional writers write to fit”

— Pamela Glass Kelly

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write…

— Agatha Christie

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

— Jamaica Kincaid

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

— Rod McKuen