Book Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

— Ba Jin

“i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i…

— Oriana Fallaci

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

— Benny Hinn

Every person at a record company didn't want to be bothered with me because I was too smart. They knew if I recorded, they…

— L.C. Cooke

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

— Clarence Darrow

I've been getting publishing royalties and stuff like that. I have just been lucky. They come in at the right time. Sometimes they don't,…

— Pharoah Sanders

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

— Peter Sotos

I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people…

— Juicy J

I don't know how much money I've made, don't know how many albums I've sold.

— Lily Allen

The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly…

— Philip Pullman

I got royalties from Reebok. If I read it right - which I think I did, and I even sent it to my dad…

— Sean O'Malley

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

— Paul McCartney