A Quote by James A. Michener
A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.
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If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.
It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.
We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune.
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.
It's wrong to make a living off the theater. Theater should be supported, like redwood trees. You should make your living - whether you're a writer or an actor or a director - in movies or commercials. But you do theater out of love.
You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.
My wife has been incredibly supportive of me as a writer. Trying really hard to make sure I get the space and time I need to work as a writer and being willing to make some of the sacrifices that you have to make to live the life of an artist.
Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.
Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.
I want to make sure that we make America more competitive. And that we do those things that make America the most attractive place in the world for entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses to grow.
There's this old Frank Sinatra song: 'If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere'... that song was about New York, but it applies to America. People know that if you make it in America, you can make it anywhere, and that is both in terms of sophistication and customer satisfaction.
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.
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