Freelance Writing Quotes

#1. In 1975, I quit my tenure, and we moved from Ann Arbor to New Hampshire. It was daunting to pay for groceries and the mortgage by freelance writing - but it worked, and I loved doing it.

Donald Hall

#2. So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food critic for a magazine for a bit, I did writing for nonprofits and political things, I was the editorial consultant for another magazine for a couple years, all sorts of jobs.

Tod Goldberg

#3. I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

Matt Ridley

#4. I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright.

Jason Katims

#5. Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#6. I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

Amy Irving

#7. I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the 'Aspen Times.' I was their nightlife correspondent. They paid me fifty bucks an article.

Darin Strauss

#8. My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

Zakes Mda

#9. I am Mardrae. Even dead Mardrae will speak their minds. Now go away. You are giving me a headache.

Jonathan Renshaw

#10. Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many more to The Courant, and another to The St. Petersburg Times.

Gina Greenlee

#11. The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye ... until we meet again

Jimi Hendrix

#12. It's not that I'm apolitical ... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add.

Susan Isaacs

#13. I knew that you couldn't make a living simply writing about the outdoors, so I made an effort from the beginning of my freelance career to write about other subjects.

Jon Krakauer

#14. The best wines take the longest to mature.

John Fowles

#15. When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on "What's the next piece I'm going to write, or draw, that'll pay this month's rent?" And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.

Al Jaffee

#16. Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?

Darin Strauss

#17. When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart

Elizabeth Chandler

#18. If you're sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to be almost negligible, or even in television. But in the theatre, there are still things to do, very interesting, very profound things.

Brian Dennehy

#19. Alyosha exclaimed. "I think that everyone should love life before everything else in the world." "Love life more than its meaning?" "Certainly, love it before logic, as you say, certainly before logic, and only then will I also understand its meaning.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control.

Michelle Gagnon

#21. A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.

Isaac Bashevis Singer