Long Quote by Lawrence Wright

So much magazine writing is playing to an empty room. You work like a plow horse, your words get printed on a half-million or…

— Jonathan Miles

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my…

— Dave Eggers

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

— Aminatta Forna

“In TIME June 7, 2010 On the sustainability of the publishing industry, in the Chicago Tribune: "I think that book publishing is about to…

— Garrison Keillor

By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories…

— Robert J. Sawyer

“A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

— Robert Benchley

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

— Tom Rachman

Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.

— Michael Ian Black

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

— Bertrand Russell

When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.

— Jared Kushner

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

— Samuel Goldwyn