Concern Quote by Mary Abigail Dodge

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.”

— Greg Curtis

Who will want to write if writing doesn't pay?

— Chris Pavone

I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much…

— P. G. Wodehouse

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

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely;…

— Maya Angelou

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

— Ray Bradbury

Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings…

— Eloisa James

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

— Alice Mattison

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

— Beth Moore

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good…

— Jonathan Kellerman

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

— Wole Soyinka