That has to remain the principal reason for doing it…

Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings…

— Eloisa James

“We had all opted to take City's financial reporting course work, which, in theory, meant we wanted to write about stock prices and corporate…

— Chris Ayres

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely;…

— Maya Angelou

“Do not write for money nor for fame, if you must write then write to be immortal”

— Colin W. Hill

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only…

— George Eliot

Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather…

— Clarissa Dickson Wright

“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.”

— Greg Curtis

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Robert Frost

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

— Beth Moore

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price.…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

Don't write for money.

— William T. Vollmann

One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.

— Jack Woodford

Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new form, with…

— Lore Segal

Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can…

— Annie Ernaux