Books Quote by Naguib Mahfouz

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

I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I…

— Hooman Majd

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

— Jess Walter

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 started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

— Ryan Murphy

My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it, so I…

— Tom King

I did playwriting, creative writing, short story, novelization.

— Brook Lopez

I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I…

— Jose Saramago

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

— Anthony Burgess

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

— James Ellroy

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough…

— Ian Rankin