Writing as a Lifestyle Quotes

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

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

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 live for the text. It's my job.

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

I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I still can't pay attention - and then had a series of day jobs. But always, continuously, I have written.

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

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

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

For me, writing is fun. The day I quit my job and take up writing full time, writing will become just another job. A commercial necessity.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

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

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream.

What I really, really love is writing. If I can just write and make a really nice living out of that, why would I change that?

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

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.

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

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'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.