Book Quote by Bert Kreischer

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

— Mason Cooley

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

— Ken Livingstone

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.

— Emily Gould

For many writers, selling a book is the ultimate dream.

— Rebecca Serle

I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels work. But…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about sex in…

— Meg Wolitzer

I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell.

— Sudha Murty

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

— James Ellroy

I'd like to sell a lot of books.

— Terry Pratchett

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

— William Peter Blatty

What I would really love to happen to me would be if I came upon an idea that would keep me busy until I…

— Philip Roth

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

— Evelyn Waugh