Sharon Creech Quotes

I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as I want with books.

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

Honestly, I feel pretty awed anytime I meet just about any writer. I get how hard it is to write and make a living from it, but there's also this almost magical force you need to tap into, and I'm amazed by anyone who can do it.

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

For every Steven King, there are a dozen guys like me who make a good living. For every David Brin, there are a dozen authors who have managed to make it their day job. For each of them, there are a dozen more for whom writing is a terrific supplement.

If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage without having to work at a day job, that would be great.

My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I'll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.

Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.