Cost Quote by Robert Creeley

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

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

— Chris Pavone

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

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

— Graham Greene

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

— Irwin Shaw

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a…

— Pat Conroy

“However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing…

— Alice Driver

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

— Samuel Johnson