John Hughes Quotes

If I weren't a writer, I think I might have thrown myself more enthusiastically into advertising. But, it's difficult to imagine being a diligent copywriter. It would be quite exasperating for me.

As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.

Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!'

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream.

I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

What Is a Good Job? It is a job for which the worker is qualified and for which he has been prepared. It is one which will not enslave him for life, but which shall employ him for as long a time as he needs it in order to win his own economic safety for life. It is one which will reward him lavishly — not in wages or in any form of money payments since money is far too unstable a medium for such purposes — but it shall reward him with due amounts of the actual things and services which he requires in the carrying on of his daily existence.

It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a writer, you are in control.

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.

If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks.

We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life.

As long as I'm able to actually maintain a career where I can write full-time, I'll be thrilled.

Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

The physical lot of … workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality...

I had always wanted a steady job in this business, a show that lasted.

My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government... I'd prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.

I got the job I wanted when I was 22, and I'm not going to give it up now.

As far as making a living, if plumbing earned more, I'd probably do it. At least you can leave the job at home once the tools are put away. A writer works in his mind 24/7.

When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.

I've thought of the independents as a stable industry for a little over two decades, and that's because I stably worked in it, so I've understood it that way.

For my family, for my loved ones, my priority is to have a job and perform.

My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like.