R. A. Salvatore Quotes

I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

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

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

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.

No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to me that I might make my living that way.

Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a better school for would-be novelists, I don't know what it is.

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

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.

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.

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.

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.

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

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

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

I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.