Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing is a lonely profession.
Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.