Books Quote by Carol Drinkwater

Olives changed the direction of my life. My husband Michel and I found a ruined farm with an olive grove near Cannes. I became…

— Carol Drinkwater

Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.

— Philip Green

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.…

— Benjamin Franklin

When I sold my first book, 'A Conspiracy of Tall Men,' it was part of a two-book deal. It wasn't hugely lucrative, but it…

— Noah Hawley

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me…

— Bill Bryson

Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed.…

— Elizabeth Strout

It used to be a lot easier to get a book deal.

— Patti Davis

In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.

— Matthew Scully

Eventually, as my books became best-sellers, the nickels pile up and one day I was offered a substantial four-book deal that was lucrative as…

— Dean Koontz

The book I made it big with in the U.S. was my fourth book, 'Sanctum.' My novels sell really well both there and in…

— Denise Mina

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime…

— Harlan Coben

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some…

— Desiderius Erasmus