Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.

Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese

I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.

Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

Aesop Rock
Aesop Rock

Really, my biggest risk was just the initial step to quit my day job to do music. I was packaging and shipping for an art gallery in Manhattan; I went to school for painting, so I always wanted to work around artwork, even though I wasn't really contributing anything to the scene.

Al Roker
Al Roker

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to 'The Today Show,' and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Alan Ball
Alan Ball

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

Allison Tolman
Allison Tolman

It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing.

Allison Tolman
Allison Tolman

I've always had a day job and never been just acting.

Amanda Fuller
Amanda Fuller

'Last Man Standing' has been an amazing treat because it is the best day job you could have because we laugh every day. It lightened me up a bit because I tend to go to some dark places.

Chris Eubank Jr.
Chris Eubank Jr.

This is no ordinary nine to five day job and I have a 24/7 in terms of my boxing and my career as a professional sportsman.