Anything Quote by Rem Koolhaas

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

If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

— Kate Braverman

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

— Rebecca Serle

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

— J. B. Priestley

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

— Rod McKuen

I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it…

— Mary Oliver

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

— Steve Toltz

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

— Anna Quindlen

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

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

— Jill Lepore

Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.

— Richard North Patterson