The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer.
Nobody's life is as romantic as it is in fiction.
I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.
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.
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.
What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.