Walter Lord 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!

I was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good, big house out of words.

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

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

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

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.

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

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

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

I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

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

Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write.

As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.

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

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

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

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

As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

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 want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.