A Quote by Paavo Haavikko

Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.

Paavo Haavikko

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Good Hobby Profession Writing

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Paavo Haavikko
Finnish - Poet
January 25, 1931 - October 6, 2008

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.

Nelson DeMille

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

Avi

I love writing and making films. What started as a hobby ultimately turned into my profession.

Sajid Nadiadwala

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Laurell K. Hamilton

When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

Rachel Billington

As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

John Knoll

If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.

Moby

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

Paul Theroux

I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

Jennifer Egan

I wouldn't have taken up modeling as a profession. It was more of a hobby.

Kriti Sanon

My hobby is my profession, and therefore, I keep on composing creatively.

Himesh Reshammiya

Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.