Hooman Majd Quotes

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

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'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.

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.

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

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

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 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'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.

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 was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

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.

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.

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've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those mirrors.

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

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.