Career Quote by Rod McKuen

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

— Rebecca Serle

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

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

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

— J. B. Priestley

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

— Georges Simenon

“The same skills needed for writing are needed or reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

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 not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that…

— Denise Duhamel

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

— Margaret Atwood

Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction.

— Neal Gabler

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

— Kay Ryan