Career Quote by Moss Hart

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

— Anna Quindlen

I really don't use that much stuff. I think it's good to know a few pieces of equipment very well, rather than learn new…

— Jon Hopkins

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

— Robert Benchley

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

— Regina Spektor

I grew up with a pencil. A pencil was my computer at the time and so drawing, drawing, drawing and the tools of drawing…

— Massimo Vignelli

“In the seventies I used to work in the bedroom of my flat at a little table. I worked in longhand with a fountain…

— Ian McEwan

If you yourself don't know how to carry pencil, don't wish someone to teach you to write.

— Voeun Tivea

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

— Nelson DeMille

Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.

— Ricky Gervais

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.

— Fran Lebowitz

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that…

— Winston Graham