Afford Quote by Amish Tripathi

“Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.”

— Joanne Kraft

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

“The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.”

— Sara Sheridan

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story…

— Langston Hughes

I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

— James Frey

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

One of the biggest drawbacks of our industry is that we haven't nurtured our writers for years. Now, we realise we need to but…

— Kabir Khan

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

— Anonymous