P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

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

Of course, I do everything for money.

I've never chosen or rejected a role because of money.

If you only do it for money, that's only what you get.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album.

The more you win, the more you get paid. I'm not trying to get paid less money. I've worked too hard to get into this tax bracket.

The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.

I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.

It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it doesn't last. After a while you realize that no one cares that much. Then you find another reason: money. You can dream on that one while the bills pile up. Then you think: "Well, I'm the sensitive type. I have to express myself." Do me a favor. Don't be so sensitive. Be tough. It will get you further along when you get rejected. Finally, you just do it because you happen to like it.

I appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant.

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.

I don't think it matters what the frequency is of me writing or directing a movie. It doesn't really matter to anybody else. I'm just trying to put good things out there.

I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that.