Behinds Quote by Anthony Burgess

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could…

— Rex Stout

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

— Naguib Mahfouz

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

— Leonard Cohen

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

— Damien Chazelle

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and…

— David Suchet

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

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for my family…

— Ne-Yo

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

— Jane Austen

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

— Nathan Lowell