It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.
I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.
That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.
I like the writing life, but it's not something that always makes enough money.
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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.
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.