Writing for Money Quotes

I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

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

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

For so long, we had to write to pay a bill, we had to write in many instances where maybe you weren't even inspired to write because it was your job. That's how passion, creativity, and love gets killed.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I wasn't going to make a living at it.

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.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid.

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.