Better Quote by Jim Butcher

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

— James Ellroy

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough…

— Ian Rankin

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be…

— Francis Fukuyama

During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate…

— J. K. Rowling

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had…

— Ted Dekker

I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

— Hannah Kent

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay…

— Stephen Hawking

My writerly aspirations are pretty simple: to provide as many readers as possible with the same sort of wonderful immersion that I myself get…

— Saladin Ahmed

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

From an early age, my initiative took many forms - teaching myself magic so I could do magic shows, buying wholesale goods and then…

— Daniel Lubetzky