Selling Quote by Joan Didion

People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember.…

— Joan Didion

Writers are always selling somebody out.

— Joan Didion

“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to…

— Joan Didion

Cold calling is about developing social skills and getting used to rejection. We are constantly selling something to somebody.

— Shahid Khan

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong…

— China Mieville

“You say you're a writer but you're depressed. Not an excuse; write from there. Write some depressing sh*t. Believe me. You will have plenty…

— Stanley Christopher

For many writers, selling a book is the ultimate dream.

— Rebecca Serle

Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one.

— Judith Rascoe

“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of…

— Joan Didion

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters…

— Joan Didion

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art…

— Wole Soyinka

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are…

— William Saroyan