Earning Quote by Karen Abbott

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.

— Steve Toltz

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked…

— Orhan Pamuk

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

— Lloyd Alexander

I think I got serious about writing in the late '90s. The first stuff I wrote was terrible and got rejected, but I started…

— Paul G. Tremblay

Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who…

— Katherine Paterson

Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the first 10…

— Orhan Pamuk

It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to…

— Kathryn Tucker Windham

[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again…

— Kirby Larson

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

— Ted Dekker

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz

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'm a writer and I've had some success.

— Carole Radziwill