Book Quote by Clive Cussler

There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book,…

— Frank Herbert

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

— Brian Lumley

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade…

— Ian Frazier

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives,…

— Cecelia Ahern

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

— Jasper Fforde

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are…

— Ruth Stout

“No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

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

— Mark Helprin

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.

— Jami Attenberg

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make…

— John McEnroe