Art Quote by Nell Zink

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

— Isabel Allende

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

— Robyn Davidson

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have…

— Ann Patchett

Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I…

— Douglas Coupland

I come from a working-class background and it wasn't in my world to be a writer - I had no direct access to those…

— Roisin Conaty

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

— Len Wein

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

— Georges Simenon

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

— Walter Darby Bannard

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

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

— Robert Barry

Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a…

— Chris Kraus

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it…

— Amy Bloom