After Quote by Jonathan Stroud

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

— John Logan

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All…

— Anonymous

My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it, so I…

— Tom King

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked…

— Orhan Pamuk

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the…

— Jan Karon

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime…

— Harlan Coben

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

— Anne Enright

All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

— Benjamin Franklin

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that,…

— Mordecai Richler

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney