Quotes About Writing

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.