Doctors Quote by Charles Bukowski

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

— Alice Mattison

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

— Nicola Roberts

I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony,…

— Eric Stoltz

It's hard to make a living as a novelist. My first novel 'Tapping the Source' made quite a splash in Hollywood, and people started…

— Kem Nunn

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

— Thomas C Foster

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

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

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

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

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

— Gore Vidal

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

— Irvin S. Cobb