C. S. Forester Quotes

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting.

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

The thought of me not having to clock in for a job anymore is something that I can't really put into words, aside from 'amazing' and 'awesome.'

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.

I could have lived anywhere in the world now if I wanted to.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

There's only one thing I know what to do, so I'm pretty much otherwise unemployable. The idea that you can make a living from exercising your only skill is wonderful. And it's wonderful to be read. It's a really exciting and happy thing to be read.

I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like.

Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

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 at home.