Charles Grodin Quotes

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

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.

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.

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

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'

I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now.

I work on weekends, but from home.

I did TV for a bit, and somewhere along the line, I started writing a column for 'The Independent' newspaper in England, and now I write features for 'British Vogue.'

I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

I like to write at home a lot.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards.

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can't play with her because I'm working. Keep in mind that working consists of me at home with a laptop on my lap sitting on the couch. It doesn't look like working. I don't have a hammer or anything.

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people make interesting assumptions about the profession.

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book.

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

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.

I wish podcasting was my only job - I have more fun doing that than I have doing absolutely anything else. But my job is that I'm a writer.

In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'

A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in cafes, trading work and discussing 'Harper's' and what not. But I rarely see them. We're home working.

The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.