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“Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.”

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Author:Octavia Butler

“I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour”

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Author:Michael Jackson

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

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Book:Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People

Source: Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People

“Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. “He’s my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life.” Al cleared his throat nervously. “That’s good to know,” he said lightly. “Important safety tip. Rachel, write that down somewhere as lesson number one.”

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Author:Kim Harrison

“If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.”

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Author:Joanne Harris

“You're not being paid by how hard you work, but by what you accomplish. If you can't hack it, pack it. Our challenge today is to look forward, to write our own history.”

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Author:William A. Connelly

“No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.”

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Author:Irwin Shaw

“I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.”

“I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.”

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Book:Conversations with Anthony Burgess

Source: Conversations with Anthony Burgess

“Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing diapers-figure out how to make writing an integral part of your life. Publication is good, and gives you the courage to go on, but publication is not as important as the act of writing.”

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Author:Janet Burroway

“My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how to fight, so I'd lie awake at night and think of ways to kill him. But I knew I'd get caught, so I decided to put it in a book and get paid for it! I always think it's odd that a whole career came out of that homicidal impulse.”

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Author:Sue Grafton

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

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Author:Horton Foote

“My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?”

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Author:Joyce Maynard