Career Quote by Rosemary Mahoney Download Open image “Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.” — Rosemary Mahoney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Career Dirty Kind Nasty Profession Tough Writing
Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don't think this is a bad thing. — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
My mother had seven children in seven years. No twins. She also had a three-legged beagle who was compelled to bite strangers, a freakishly… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses. — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've rowed in… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“Don’t allow anyone to pressure you into taking a job in a field that doesn’t feel right in your gut. You are the one… — Alison James Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
There are so many things you can do with your life, you can go to school and study toward your career, you can become… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
If I can beat a proven champion like Canelo, that will take my career to a different level. — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
