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

I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

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

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 never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.

I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

I like the writing life, but it's not something that always makes enough money.