The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.