Being Quote by Mark Haddon

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

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

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

— Francine Rivers

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

— Alan Furst

I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in…

— Robert Lopez

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

— Lucille Kallen

I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too… I think the…

— Pearl Cleage

I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I…

— Chelsea Cain

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love…

— Tennessee Williams

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you…

— Graham Greene

...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

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

— Gary Jennings