Author Quote by Sara Sheridan

“Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely…

— Sara Sheridan

“My writing is my real work. My job is merely the way by which I debase myself for money.”

— Giando Sigurani

“If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“...publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write.”

— J.D. Salinger

“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”

— Jules Renard 1890

“My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.”

— Thucydides

“Being a writer is an important job because we bring emotion and imagination into a world filled with endless, inane chatter.”

— Jennifer Probst

“Well, if you want to be a writer, you’re going to have to start letting people read your stuff, you know.”

— Kellie McAllen

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.”

— Anonymous

“I am a writer and I want to write.”

— Jane Bowles

“It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.”

— Seeley James