Distinction Quote by Michael Hyatt

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman

“Another difference between amateur and professional writers, almost by definition, is that the latter more successfully engage their audience. It is partly a question…

— Alice W. Flaherty

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

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because…

— David McCullough

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

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

— Jane Smiley

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

— Norman Mailer

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it.…

— Amanda Palmer

“Do you know how you can tell a professional writer from an amateur?" "No." "An amateur worries about the work before starting. A professional…

— Avi

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

— Frank Yerby

We're professionals, and we know we want to write.

— Maria Brink

“And though creative writing as an intellectual exercise may be pursued with profit by anyone, writing as a profession is not a job for…

— Wallace Stegner