Between Quote by Jasper Fforde

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

My job is to entertain the readers in such a manner that, when they reach the end of the book, they feel like they've…

— Clive Cussler

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

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates…

— John Green

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

— Mark Twain

There's a contract that I make between myself, the author, and the reader. I have to figure out how to give the reader certain…

— Toni Morrison

The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe…

— Larry Niven

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

— Len Wein

“People always see me writing and ask me if they can read my writing. The answer is yes, after I publish it and they…

— Jarod Kintz

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

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

— Debbie Harry

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

— Thomas C Foster