Jane Goldman Quotes

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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 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.'

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'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

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

On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

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

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.

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

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.