Doreen Cronin Quotes

I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

I write the books to amuse myself.

As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.

If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

I get a great high from writing.

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

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

I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

I enjoy writing but I wouldn't want to do it all the time because generally you are not writing about things you want to write about.

Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.

I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

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.

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

Journalism doesn't have to be your first love... or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can't think of anything better to do with your life, that it's this or the abyss. But once you get going... it helps if you love it.

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

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