Beauty Quote by Markus Zusak

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my…

— Garrison Keillor

For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.

— Candace Bushnell

I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize…

— Sharon Creech

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it…

— Iain Sinclair

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

— Sally Rooney

I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell.

— Sudha Murty

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

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

— Sophie Kinsella

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