Dollars Quote by Theodore Sturgeon

I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I…

— Hooman Majd

I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

— Ryan Murphy

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

— Jess Walter

I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said…

— John Updike

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

— Damien Chazelle

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first…

— Ian Rankin

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off…

— Jonathan Coe

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

— Rob Roberge

My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it, so I…

— Tom King

I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

— Walter Dean Myers