Becoming Quote by Shannon Hale

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen,…

— Paul Auster

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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

— Rebecca Serle

In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write,…

— Shannon Hale

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

— Al Alvarez

“I met a doctor the other night who told me he had always wanted to be a writer. I nodded. People always tell me…

— Natalie Goldberg

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

— Alain de Botton

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

— Leo Rosten

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

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

If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.

— Brandon Sanderson