Art Quote by Wilson Mizner

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them…

— George Woodcock

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

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

— Chris Pavone

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 writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write…

— Karl Marx

“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

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

— Alexander Pushkin

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

— George Orwell

I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read.…

— Bill Bryson

There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

— David Milch

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

— Wole Soyinka

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

— James A. Michener