Able Quote by Gore Vidal

Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.

— Robert Harris

Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's…

— Ramsey Campbell

When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.

— John Logan

Even though I wasn't making a lot of money I was enjoying what I was doing.

— Fred Foster

I made a lot of money. It took a lot of time but when I started making money, it really sort of worked well.…

— Raj Kundra

Before the arrival of my first son, I gave up on the moribund business of magazine publishing, where I had long dreamed of a…

— Rumaan Alam

I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

— Matt Ridley

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a…

— Robert Caro

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.

— Shane Black

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day;…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I made a ton of money in my career.

— Jermaine O'Neal