Asking Quote by Kem Nunn

I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which…

— Anna Quindlen

The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to supplement the…

— Michael Chabon

Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a…

— Amy Holden Jones

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage…

— Sasha Alexander

When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for…

— Stephen Gaghan

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some…

— William S. Burroughs

I've been working with a lot of people out in Hollywood on writing scripts, screenplays, directing, producing, and making music.

— Enzo Amore

I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers who have…

— Debra Monroe

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

— Nicholas Sparks

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

— William Goldman

I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to…

— Dorothy Allison

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens