Writing as a Hobby Quotes

Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out in the middle of nowhere, I entertained myself by writing.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

After everyone's gone to bed, I still find myself sitting at the computer writing songs. It's a nice reminder that this has always been a kind of hobby that I get on with because I really love it.

I had a very high opinion of my father's judgement of things and he said, "You better get a job that pays the bills because a writer doesn't make any money. If possible, get a job that allows you to write in your spare time."

I started writing when I was 4.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.

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

If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.

Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

Definitely haven't been doing writing. I'm so intimated by it now because I sort of put it to bed after I graduated, and I got so focused on acting. But it is something that I hope get brave enough - even if I just go back it for myself - it is something that is very close to my heart and I do hope that it's not something that is gone forever from my life. I guess that's just a choice; no one's going to that do for me, so I need to be the one to do it.

I get a great high from writing.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for my family and, you know, a few people know my name - that's great.

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

When I got in trouble, my mom would make me read or write - I would have to write my name over and over and over again. It gave me great penmanship, but I also just liked to write. Every time I would go to the store, I would buy a notebook. I had thousands of them.

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

Don't write for money.

I write the books to amuse myself.