Arcs Quote by Richard Russo

Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've shared. I…

— Wright Morris

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more…

— Flannery O'Connor

The rich will always betray the poor.

— Henry Joy McCracken

[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or…

— Elaine Dundy

Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.

— Simon Beaufoy

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich.…

— Nelson Algren

But that would put me on a path that would make me totally divergent from who I am. I don't have to go through…

— Ben Sollee

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the…

— Roger L'Estrange

“You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think "it's only the rich that get richer while the poor get poorer".…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source…

— Flannery O'Connor