Books Quote by Gabrielle Zevin

“The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.”

— Robert Benchley

The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural…

— Amado Nervo

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker

“look, and I’m sure you’ll be amazed at the wealth of great books—usually there are several hundred freebies in virtually every category of fiction…

— Steve Weber

“I am free to write what I want and my readers are free to think what they can”

— Marlowe Sr

“An author is free, even here in hell, if he knows that the literary agent is almighty and that he by himself is impotent.”

— David Duff Tom Fahy

“Authors write, readers read, money talks.”

— Toba Beta

“People don't know they want to become an author until they meet me.”

— Lucas J. Robak

“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us,…

— Tobias Wolff

“I don't believe it pays to be a great author.”

— Jean Webster

“g sees himself as an independent reader: he buys all of the books on the literary prize lists.”

— Joanna Walsh

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt