Able Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

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

Who will want to write if writing doesn't pay?

— Chris Pavone

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

— William Zinsser

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

— Wole Soyinka

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

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

— Kiran Desai

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Amish Tripathi

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good…

— Jonathan Kellerman