Markus Zusak Quotes

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand or three hundred. I am like an artist who paints a picture because he must, otherwise he is unhappy - not unhappy, but he must obey that creative impulse.

People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you're writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you're writing for. Yourself.

In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at the mercy of whatever talent you have.

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.

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 am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

Even if nobody cared, I'm still gonna make music.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

I make music not to make money but because it's in me.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

I've never been in this business to make money. I've always been in it to make good music.

I want to make music until I die.

My ambition was never to make a lot of money. It wasn't to travel around the world. I was really just struggling to make the best pictures I could make.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

I’m not producing movies to make money