Career Quote by Richard Greenberg

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

One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when someone else…

— Diana Gabaldon

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as…

— Ian Sansom

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

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

I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them…

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Anna Quindlen

I had, at a point in time, decided not to write on the corporate world. But if people expect me to set stories in…

— Ravi Subramanian

Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty…

— W. P. Kinsella

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to…

— Sam Shepard

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

— Caroline B. Cooney