Bills Quote by Damien Chazelle

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

— Leonard Cohen

For so long, we had to write to pay a bill, we had to write in many instances where maybe you weren't even inspired…

— Joe Budden

I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid.

— Courtney A. Kemp

For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.

— Jen Sincero

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

My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it, so I…

— Tom King

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

— Anthony Burgess

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

— Ted Dekker

I wrote for my high school and college newspapers. It was my only creative outlet in those days.

— Soupy Sales

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

— Gary Jennings

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

— Beth Moore