Banned Quote by Herman Melville

I'm going to do damage with it. I'll make sure that my work gets out. That no publisher will ever be able to tell…

— Michael Moore

“Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit…

— Donald Miller

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

— Mark Helprin

Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

— George Orwell

Someone putting down $25 of his or her hard-earned money to buy my product, then doing it again because they felt the payoff was…

— Brad Thor

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only…

— George Eliot

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my…

— Amy Tan

If the books are selling, the money will follow.

— Larry Kirshbaum

I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift…

— Bill Bright

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and…

— John Locke

Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may…

— Anthony Trollope