Advise Quote by Terry Pratchett

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

“Writing is not a job description. A great deal of it is luck. Don't do it if you are not a gambler because a…

— Margaret Atwood

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays…

— Abraham Verghese

I just feel really fortunate to build a career as a writer.

— Pippa Middleton

I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work…

— Erica Jong

I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require that you…

— John Cooper Clarke

I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

— Natalie Dormer

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it…

— Amy Bloom

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

— Zadie Smith

The thing about writing jobs is you can't really turn them down. When there's an opportunity, and it's something I want to do, I…

— Dan Mintz

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside…

— Marc Guggenheim