Children Quote by Susan Orlean

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

— Rebecca Serle

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

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

— Jamaica Kincaid

I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've…

— Lynne Reid Banks

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

— Rosemary Mahoney

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

— Caroline B. Cooney

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should…

— Wallace Stegner

I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy of a…

— B. J. Novak

Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have…

— Alan Bradley

“Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of…

— John McPhee

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 was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer. The strength…

— Dervla Murphy