When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.
When you're rich you don't write checks.
Money is a kind of poetry.