Discipline Quote by Eric Heisserer

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

— Horton Foote

If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody…

— Joanne Harris

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

— Irwin Shaw

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

— Jim Broadbent

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

— Debbie Harry

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

— Roald Dahl

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

Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use…

— Henry Ford

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

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

— Leonard Cohen