Effort Quote by Jane Austen

Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've shared. I…

— Wright Morris

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

— Anthony Burgess

I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The…

— Harriet Martineau

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

— Lorrie Moore

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could…

— Rex Stout

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading…

— Don Marquis

Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather…

— Clarissa Dickson Wright

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

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

— Joyce Maynard

“Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves.”

— Guy Kawasaki