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I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite.

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

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.

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.