Acclaim Quote by David Foster Wallace

Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort…

— Dan Poynter

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

— Seneca the Younger

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote…

— Jim Gaffigan

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

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

— Fay Weldon

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

— Willa Cather

The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores lose interest,…

— Jeff Giles

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing…

— Aidan Chambers

“Lately, because computer technology has made self-publishing an easier and less expensive venture, I'm getting a lot of review copies of amateur books by…

— Terri Windling