Freelance writing:
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. - Robert Benchley
The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere. – S.J. Perelman
Writing (in general):
Only a mediocre writer is always at his best. – W. Somerset Maugham
The writer’s way is rough and lonely and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say cleaning ferryboats? – Dorothy Parker
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann
You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word. – Gustave Flaubert
A blank page is God’s way of showing you how hard it is to be God. – Anonymous
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean. – R. L. Stevenson
And for good measure:
A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. – Ernest Hemingway
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. – Jules Renard
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