Paid Quote by Irwin Shaw

“No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.”

— Irwin Shaw

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful…

— J. E. Buckrose

I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware…

— Robert Creeley

That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.

— Eric Heisserer

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

— Graham Greene

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I…

— Truman Capote

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

— Horton Foote

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

— Arthur Schopenhauer