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“Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.”

People Giving Writing Reason Song Stranger Profession Interaction Offensive Writing Songs Interaction With Others

Book:Will Oldham on Bonnie

Source: Will Oldham on Bonnie

“It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.”

Writing One Thing Profession Relax Attributes Exhausted

Author:Dan Simmons

“Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.”

Thinking Knows Needs Writing Doe Hard Pay Acting Attention Know How Directors Music Is Harder Profession Honestly Pay Attention Instruction Leeches

Author:Michael Shannon

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.”

“I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.”

Thinking Writing Wanted Powerful Careers Wonderful Decided Exciting Profession Things To Do Most Powerful Wonderful Things Exciting Things

Author:Mary Oliver

“Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.”

Ifs Writing Art Running Art Is Profession Climbing Toilets Pipe Plumber Sewers Plumbing Wrenches

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.”

Writing Painting Profession Hardest

Author:Anjelica Huston

“To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.”

Way Should Writing Problem Struggle Risk Oneself Profession Passing Passings Destroyed Here And Now Disappointing Manuscripts Puzzling

Book:The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990

Source: The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990