Hollywood Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable…

— Robert Bringhurst

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

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

— Robert Frost

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

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

— Robert Frost

I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.

— Jack L. Warner

Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.

— Chad Harbach

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said…

— John Updike

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

— Erica Jong

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

“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!”

— Avijeet Das