Brady Corbet Quotes

I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.

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

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

Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

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

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't care if you're writing textbooks or Pulitzer Prize-winning articles for weighty publications of world renown: If you're writing and it's paying the bills, consider yourself a successful writer.

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

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid.

I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to write? I grew up in Pittsburgh, so it wasn't really a notion that a lot of people pursue.

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

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.

No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.

I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as I want with books.

To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.

I love writing, and I am one of the people who can do it and make a living.

At the age of 10, I had my first piece published in what was known as the 'Junior Post,' which was part of the 'Yorkshire Post,' and it was just for kids. I read it every week. And I got paid for it. So I thought... 'I can actually do this. I can get paid to write, and this is going to be fine.' I wrote several pieces for them.

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

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