Art Quote by Ann Patchett

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

— Amish Tripathi

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be…

— James Lee Burke

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

— Isabel Allende

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

— Anonymous

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too…

— Arthur Phillips

“It's great being a part time writer. If you sell books you're a success. But if you don't sell any then all you have…

— Aaron T Knight

If you wish to be a writer, write.

— Epictetus

Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying.…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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

Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market…

— Nell Zink

“I write because I have a meaningful message to deliver, not a book to sell.”

— Ramona Matta

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

— Thomas Steinbeck