Sara Sheridan Quotes

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.

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

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

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

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

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.

As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.

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.'

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

It was always my dream to write for a living.

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

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

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

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

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

It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.