Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The worst thing about the music business is the business part of it. Business has nothing whatever to do with writing, playing… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world. — Ethel Wilson Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“In the business of writing, what one accumulates is not experience but uncertainties.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
“As it turns out, business writing is all about getting to the point and leaving out all of the noise. You think… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I made a list of skills in which I think every adult should gain a working knowledge. I wouldn't expect you to… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own. — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing. — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
“A press release announces your news. A media alert informs reporters of an event's location and time. Both belong in your trade… — Lisa Masiello Copy Share Image
The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit… — Gil Amelio Copy Share Image
Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
