Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.
– Barbara Abercrombie
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- As you grow old, if you don’t earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby. – Amit Kalantri
- As a Priest got a calling to preach, you also got a calling to do whatever you do, so do it with passion and only God can stop your calling. – Unarine Ramaru
- Learning stamps you with it’s moments. Childhood’s learning is made up of moments. It isn’t steady. It’s a pulse. – Eudora Welty
- Wrap him up in floral wallpaper, wishing the envelopes I seal were his lips, leaving hickeys like stamps to show where he’s been. – Taylor Rhodes
- Approach a trip as a chance to collect unique experiences, not passport stamps, postcards and snapshots in front of famous monuments. – Rough Guides
- Writing is not a hobby. It’s the only way I get to shut up the demons in my head. – Mark Maish
- Writing is my life. Life is my hobby. – Emma Lai
- A heart full of love is worth more than a purse full of coins. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. – Ursula K Le Guin
- What a pair they were – a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive. – Brandon Sanderson
- The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change. – Jennifer Sodini
- Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, ????ons, for an apple or an egg. – Jo Baker
- … He was only a person on the outside and… his insides were ashes mixed with coins and a brain. – Gail Carson Levine
- COINS are for LAZY PEOPLE to DECIDE and for WISE MEN to INVEST. – shaikh mustafa
- Anyone who said money didn’t matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch. – Nora Roberts
- …filled her memory bank with shiny coins. – Erica Jong
- Freedom within is embodied in things as well as people. Like coins tossed into a wishing well, they contain our hopes and dreams. – Fennel Hudson
- I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man’s wits. (…) And I believe there once were dragons. I’ve seen their skulls, after all. – George RR Martin
- Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn’t get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading. – ANL Munby
- For every can’t, there’s a can. Cans are worth money, so you’d better start collecting them. – Bianca McCormickJohnson
- Life is supposed to be exciting, so journey through each day collecting moments and celebrating the right ones. – Mensah Oteh
- We came to save the sacred writings. – Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE. – Joseph Shellim
- collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles. – Gregory F Treverton
- Collecting the Wings Of Pain ~ The Sordid Stings Of Love Is all I Gain- Munish Maya – Munish Maya
- I met death for the last time realizing that he, the creature I called, it because I did not want to believe came for me… Collecting. – Jessica Reader
- For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head. – Christopher Scotton
- Social media is about connecting with people, not collecting people. – Karen Clark
- Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope. – Bryant McGill
- Don’t spend your life collecting other peoples postcards – Syd Hair
- I want him and me in this stolen moment. Collecting heartbeats. Falling in love for the millionth time. – Pam Godwin
- The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck. – Todd Stocker
- It is much more worthwhile to implement only one bright idea than collecting a thousand of them. – Eraldo Banovac
- It’s all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I’m collecting them. I’m always looking for a hero, you know? – Jenna Brooks
- The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
- You’re never as good a writer as you think you are, and you’re never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing. – Don Roff
- Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
- Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being. – Frederick Franck
- Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I’d have to give it up. – Mae West
- Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you cintribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go. – Simon Zingerman
- The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse. – Dawn Fotopulos