Able Quote by Chris Patten

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

No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.

— Dave Sim

“Readers have some peculiar notions about the status of writers, the most foolish of which is that writers are treated like royalty by their…

— Reed Farrel Coleman

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

— Ba Jin

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

— John Grisham

It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over twenty-five thousand…

— Margaret Mitchell

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

— Mark Helprin

I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

— Beverly Cleary

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year…

— Robert Gottlieb

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

“I am never going to win a literary prize. There is no point trying anymore. I stopped trying long ago. I am too undisciplined…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

— Joseph Wambaugh