About Quote by Sara Sheridan

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

— Rebecca Serle

“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.”

— Sara Sheridan

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the…

— Jennifer Gilmore

“The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.”

— Sara Sheridan

“An author is similar to an actor. They play many characters in their lives—photographer, nurse, dancer, doctor, writer, etc. As an author, you have…

— Mischa Temaul

What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a…

— Anonymous

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

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

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that…

— Russell Banks

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee