Quotes About Writing

I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

I don't spend money on books. I write them myself.

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.

I've finally decided to write about profit for a changeBut before I really started I already started to feel lameBaby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed

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.

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you'll end up with less of either.

You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.