Accidents Quote by Pearl S. Buck

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

— Martin Cruz Smith

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only…

— George Eliot

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

— James Ellroy

Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your…

— James Altucher

The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up…

— Ellen Gilchrist

I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get the money…

— Neil Gaiman

It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

— Cliff Martinez

Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at…

— Irving Wallace

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

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

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

— Kate Zambreno

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

— Amish Tripathi