Quotes About Author

Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.

I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.

The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money.

Hell will freeze over before I send you any money for this unwarranted bill.

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

I think it is outrageous - to lock people's money away and change the rules on them. So, on point of principle, I stopped putting money into my pension.

I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money.

No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.

I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; one, that I have lost all the names, the other, that I have spent all the money.

I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

I couldn't afford [buying Marvel]. I hope I have enough money for dinner tonight!

Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.

I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.

When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: 'Does the candidate get paid?

I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it.

People write for ego gratification, not money.

The funniest thing people say to me: "I wish I had your life". Hello! I make a living writing about it.

A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents.

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.