Books Quote by Ba Jin Download Open image “I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.” — Ba Jin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Life Reader Royalty
I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt. — Benny Hinn Copy Share Image
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. ... When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you… — Joe Strummer Copy Share
Every person at a record company didn't want to be bothered with me because I was too smart. They knew if I recorded, they… — L.C. Cooke Copy Share Image
I got royalties from Reebok. If I read it right - which I think I did, and I even sent it to my dad like, 'Did I read this right?' and he said yes, so unless we both can't read - Reebok made over a million dollars on all my merch, and I got like $3,000. — Sean O'Malley Copy Share
This has been a long and tiring battle for 10 years. And I'm glad it's finally resolved. My principles and reputation as a creative… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace. — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing. — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck. — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me. — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
