Career Quote by Octavia Butler

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys…

— Erica Jong

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

— Maureen Johnson

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

— Georges Simenon

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

— Peter Benchley

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

— Caroline B. Cooney

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

— Rosemary Mahoney

Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

— Tom King

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

— Gregory Mcdonald

Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while…

— John Green

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

— Anna Quindlen

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more…

— Ernest Hemingway