Inspiration Quote by Philip Pullman

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.

— Jamaica Kincaid

A writer is someone who writes!

— Pat Schneider

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

— Richard Bach

“Professional writers write to fit”

— Pamela Glass Kelly

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

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the…

— Nick Blaemire

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

— Dean Wesley Smith

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

— Leo Rosten

A writer is basically someone who shares his or her value or vision of the world.

— Paulo Coelho

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

— Susan Sontag