Being crazy Quote by MaryJanice Davidson

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

— Maeve Binchy

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

— Horton Foote

You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it…

— Jodi Picoult

That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.

— Eric Heisserer

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

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

— Debbie Harry

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work…

— Richard Gere

No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must…

— Stanley Ellin

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.

— Terry Pratchett

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride…

— Helen Garner

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed…

— Susan Sontag