I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want…

We're not really in the business to sell ourselves. We want to sell what we work on.

— Danny Carey

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most…

— Anonymous

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

— Burt Lancaster

Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.

— Tucker Max

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

— Phillip Knightley

The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.

— Seth Klarman

I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with…

— Jerry Weintraub

They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.

— Vivian Gornick

I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to make…

— James Franco

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher…

— Greg Egan

It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers…

— Frankie Cosmos

“I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.”

— Hank Moody

The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

— Mem Fox

“Read, so as to know; speak, so as to teach; write, so as to think!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.”

— Haruki Murakami