I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote simply for money. What makes a writer is that he likes writing. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.
April 19, 2012
Quote of the Day: PG Wodehouse
February 29, 2012
Quote of the Day: Feodor Dostoevsky
I simply don’t know how anyone can write at great speed, and only for the money’s sake.
January 10, 2012
Quote of the Day: Ferenc Molnair
On how he became a writer…
In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and finally I did it for money.
