2,702 Quotes About Careers

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now.

The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change. Popularities come and go. The tragedy of it is that somebody like Robin Williams should suffer from that, and be driven to commit suicide. If ever there was an untimely, unfair death, it was him.

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

All of us have something in our college careers that makes people wonder, can they get the job done?

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.