“A hobby accompanied by more effort on your part, will result in a great career.”

“No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.”

“Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.”

“Focus on the process, and the results will follow your efforts.”

“A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.”

“One of his hobbies was to wait for the American Shakespeare — a hobby more patient than angling.”

“Few men, I imagine, who become great started on their career with the intention of becoming so. The intention generally accompanies the unsuccessful. The secret of real greatness seems to be a happy knack of doing things as they come in your way; and they rarely present themselves in the form which careful preparation would enable you to deal with.”

“For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.”

“Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.”

“As a writer, I see myself more as a communicator. For me, writing is the best part of my career.”