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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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.
It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.
You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
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.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.