Business Quote by Henry R. Luce

“Writers used to be treated (except for the few brand name authors) as the bottom rung of the food chain.  We were interchangeable parts. …

— Bob Mayer

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

— Fay Weldon

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

— Will Self

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.

— Werner Herzog

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

— Oscar Wilde

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

— Irvin S. Cobb

“The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the poets at…

— Martin Amis

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential…

— David Remnick

“I was driven to go into book writing by the very nature of journalism and blogging. Both are ephemeral. Journalists and bloggers can have…

— Barista Uno

Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They're creative troublemakers - that's why you hire them.

— Andrew Neil