Amount Quote by Harrison Salisbury

Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was…

— George R. R. Martin

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

— Laverne Cox

I don't sign contracts for my books.

— Andrew Vachss

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will…

— Jasper Fforde

“To the people who insist they really do have a great idea but they just can't write, I'd say that given some of the…

— Iain Banks

In business, you can write your own book. The more unique it is from anything written before, the more likely it is to succeed.

— Kenneth Cole

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.

— Helen Garner

I signed my first book contract without paying much attention to what it said. I didn't know at the time that the book would…

— Stephanie Land

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

A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars…

— Mordecai Richler

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

— David Baldacci