Writing & Money

"Fewer than five percent of the Author’s Guild…live primarily on their income as writers, and this figure includes those with lucrative movie rights, overseas translations….”
~~Stephen Pyne in Voice and Vision: A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction


Um. Is this true? Wow!

Well, what motivates this writer?

I write because I have something to say.
I write because books have been a lighthouse for me.
What if I write something that helps someone?