Action Quote by Elmore Leonard

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition…

— Elmore Leonard

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

Making movies can actually be quite boring, there's a lot of sitting around and waiting. Unless you really believe in the story and love…

— Jeremy Irons

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they…

— Michael Korda

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work…

— Richard Gere

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to…

— Alan Lightman

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're…

— Bill Murray

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they…

— Salman Rushdie

The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot…

— Andrew Davies

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no…

— George Murray