Quotes About Writing

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

What is a screenplay? 120 pages of begging for money and attention.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

I don't really do much social media. I just don't like it that much. I've trained myself to write very slowly for a lot of money so it really galls me to write quickly for free.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

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

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.