Aesthetics Quote by Eden Robinson

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

— Manuel Puig

The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be…

— Jamaica Kincaid

It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break…

— Jim C. Hines

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add…

— Chinua Achebe

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing is infinitely…

— Tony Kushner

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell…

— W. P. Kinsella

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

— Irwin Shaw

The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even…

— Barbara Kruger

Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But your standards…

— Lori Wilde

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

— James Frey