All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didnt need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. – Paul Auster
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that its humorous, all the attention to it, because its hardly the most insightful or valuable thing thats happened to me. – Steve Jobs
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. – Ernest Hemingway