Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.
If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.
I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.
If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
Writing is a lonely business.
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.