Any Quote by Janet Evanovich

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

— Irving Thalberg

I'm not a good business person when it comes to my writing.

— Tanya Saracho

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

— A. J. Liebling

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

— Ann Patchett

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

— Ann Patchett

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

— Toni Cade Bambara

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.

— Robert Penn Warren

I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer.

— Meital Dohan

Writing is a lonely business.

— Sherman Alexie

My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as many authors…

— Grant Shapps

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

— Amish Tripathi

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan