Pay Quote by Chris Pavone

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

— Leonard Cohen

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if…

— Joyce Maynard

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

— Horton Foote

“People always see me writing and ask me if they can read my writing. The answer is yes, after I publish it and they…

— Jarod Kintz

I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read.…

— Bill Bryson

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

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

— Beth Moore

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

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

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.

— Samuel Johnson

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

— W. Somerset Maugham