Commitment Quote by Taslima Nasrin

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

— Beth Moore

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

— Leonard Cohen

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

— Chris Pavone

“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.”

— Greg Curtis

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

— Horton Foote

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price.…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

“People always see me writing and ask me if they can read my writing. The answer is yes, after I publish it and they…

— Jarod Kintz

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

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

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

— Ray Bradbury

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

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

— Mark Twain