Bigs Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

I've learned over the years that big-name writers might be treated fairly by the media conglomerates that dominate publishing today. But the average author…

— Thomas Hauser

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

— Alice Mattison

I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing…

— John Green

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.

— Pankaj Mishra

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

— Irvin S. Cobb

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell…

— W. P. Kinsella

Writers are always selling somebody out.

— Joan Didion

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything…

— Junot Diaz