No reason Quote by Irwin Shaw

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

— Leonard Cohen

Who will want to write if writing doesn't pay?

— Chris Pavone

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

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

— Horton Foote

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

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

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to…

— Edward Bond

Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings…

— Eloisa James

You know how you have that one thing you would do even if you're not getting paid to do it? That's what writing music…

— Kandi Burruss

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

— Amish Tripathi

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

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert