Ravi Subramanian Quotes

As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.

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

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

But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.

My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

I live for the text. It's my job.

I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing - aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn't in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine.

You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.

I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.

Who will want to write if writing doesn't pay?

When playing football became a job, it lost its luster for me.

Because the job is still really exciting, and I still get nervous on the first day of shooting. But all the nonsense that surrounds it - that can be on your own terms.

The thing is, acting is supposed to be fun - maybe not always in a way that's lighthearted, but always in a way that's satisfying.

Music never felt like a job.

I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid.

Sometimes when you turn a hobby into a job, it becomes work.

It's interesting because all I want to do is make music. I want to sit in my room, play the guitar, make beats, sing... And I have never made less music than when being a musician became my job.

Creative satisfaction is highly underrated. When you don't have it, the money doesn't spend nearly as well.