Bills Quote by Ahmet Zappa

“This novel business is an awful business. Why the hell did I ever get mixed up in it?”

— James McGrath Morris

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you…

— Neil Cross

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

— William Gibson

Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for…

— Evelyn Waugh

“I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. ”

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.

— Sarah Dessen

“When I read that letter, I thought, we don’t make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make purchase…

— Brad Stone

Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four…

— Mark Millar

“We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver…

— Pamela Glass Kelly

“Oh, by the way, the plot: it almost slipped my mind. Charlie French bought my mother’s pictures cheap and sold them dear to Binkie…

— John Banville

I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift…

— Bill Bright

“if you want to be a great writer, you have to be a greed reader.”

— Imelda Akmal Architectural Writer