Choices Quote by Mary Lee Settle

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

— Ann Patchett

For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.

— Terence Blacker

Who will want to write if writing doesn't pay?

— Chris Pavone

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

— Gertrude Stein

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.

— Raymond E. Feist

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride…

— Helen Garner

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

“Writing is not a job description. A great deal of it is luck. Don't do it if you are not a gambler because a…

— Margaret Atwood

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

— Yann Martel

This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity,…

— Kurt Vonnegut