A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.