A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as 'The Author.'
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.