Samuel Rogers Quotes

I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for my family and, you know, a few people know my name - that's great.

What I really, really love is writing. If I can just write and make a really nice living out of that, why would I change that?

The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.

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

Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer. I knew I would always write; I just wasn't always sure how I would go about doing so.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

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

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

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.

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

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

I write the books to amuse myself.

This is what I've always wanted to do ever since I was a little girl. Coming from dance and theater and what was accessible to me in my hometown, it was all I did after school and on the weekends. The idea of making my hobby into my job was the ultimate quest.

I just want to work on things that move me.

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

I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require that you do anything.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

My art completes my life.

I never choose jobs because of what I think I should do. I want to feel something. And with 'Beast,' it was very much like that.

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays

I love makin' music, so whether I'ma make money at it or not, I'ma still do it. The thing is, I've gotten to a point where I don't have to use music to make a livin', so I can do it for fun like I used to when I was young.

I've learned that I can't do it all at once. So, you have to figure out your angle of attack. Coming in on the acting front, acting is a passion of mine. It's a true love. Dancing, I kind of just fell into. Choreographing, the same thing. But making films, producing and directing, that's the heartbeat of my existence.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.