Patrick Ness Quotes

It was always my dream to write for a living.

I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream.

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.

As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!

I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I'd be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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.

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

In terms of people who want to be writers, I wish more people knew how much work it was.

Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.

I love writing, and I am one of the people who can do it and make a living.

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work, and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you, anyway.