Become Quote by Rebecca Serle

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

— Vicki Baum

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

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

— Anna Quindlen

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

— Georges Simenon

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

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

— Rosemary Mahoney

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

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

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— Caroline B. Cooney