Career Quote by Michael Lewis

Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.

— Robyn Davidson

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

— Shannon Hale

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

— Andy Rooney

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

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

— David Milch

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

— Julia Leigh

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

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

— Sherwood Anderson

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

— Donald Miller

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

— Doris Lessing

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible…

— Susan Cheever

I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop…

— Matt Fraction