Adult Quote by Terry Pratchett

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

Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

— Rita Mae Brown

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to…

— Pearl S. Buck

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

— Simon Beaufoy

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

— James Ellroy

When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding…

— Hilary Mantel

I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could…

— Benjamin Carson

No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.

— Jami Attenberg

I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much…

— P. G. Wodehouse

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

— David Foster Wallace

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

All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

— Benjamin Franklin