Unpaid Writing Quotes

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm not being paid, so I can say whatever I want. I don't have to justify the cost of a book to readers; they get it for free, so expectations are naturally low. (And no one-star reviews!)

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

Writing that's not working for a living.