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Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

— Dorothy Fields

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✓Similar Perspectives

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

— Amish Tripathi

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

— Yoko Ono

If you become a creative writer with the idea that you are going to make a whole lot of money, then maybe this isn't the best choice for you.

— Tom Drury

I don't sit down to write a number one hit. I'm not that good at my job - I don't know how to do that.

— Brantley Gilbert

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

— Humphrey Bogart

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

— Barbara Kruger

Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.

— Danny Meyer

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

— Edward Bond

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

— Stephen Ambrose

✗Opposing Perspectives

The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.

— Sophia Amoruso