Charles Stross Quotes

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.

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

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

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 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.'

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid.

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

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

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.