Book Quote by Jack L. Chalker

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed…

— Cory Doctorow

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry…

— Stephen King

There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book,…

— Frank Herbert

Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of time. Reading…

— Zia Haider Rahman

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is…

— John Green

When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.

— John Logan

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many…

— Gore Vidal

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett

When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at base, it's…

— Olga Tokarczuk

If the books are selling, the money will follow.

— Larry Kirshbaum