Amy Bloom Quotes

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

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

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

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

I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.

Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work.

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all the things I could try, and one of them was writing a novel.

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 didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

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

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.

If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.

Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

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

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

I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.

It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

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.