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I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.

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

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.