Writing as a Source of Income Quotes

The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.

My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!

I live for the text. It's my job.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

For me, writing is fun. The day I quit my job and take up writing full time, writing will become just another job. A commercial necessity.

I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.

For every Steven King, there are a dozen guys like me who make a good living. For every David Brin, there are a dozen authors who have managed to make it their day job. For each of them, there are a dozen more for whom writing is a terrific supplement.

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream.

I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for my family and, you know, a few people know my name - that's great.

What I really, really love is writing. If I can just write and make a really nice living out of that, why would I change that?

To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.

Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write.

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'