Tracy Kidder Quotes

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must admit, and I've worked hard.

I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.

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.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

I'm a workaday writer.

If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.

I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made me think it was possible to be a writer.

I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.