Money Quote by Shirley Hazzard

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

— Norman Spinrad

When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my…

— Taslima Nasrin

Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.

— Emily Yoffe

Don't write for money.

— William T. Vollmann

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

— Mark Twain

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

— Don Ward

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn`t seem to get picked up by the papers.

— Jamie Cullum

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it…

— Ernest Hemingway

When somebody shows up at your job and jeopardizes your job, yelling and screaming, that's financial abuse. It threatens your ability to take care…

— Kerry Washington

Nobody's going to step in and dump a lot of money and make it easy. Unless you have a lot of money, you have…

— Lonnie Johnson

The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you…

— Stephen King