Book Quote by Mark Helprin

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a…

— Lewis Carroll

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Peter Sotos

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

— Wayne Dyer

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

— Anonymous

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

— Rebecca Serle

You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the…

— Larry Winget

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

— Jennifer Weiner

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

— James Ellroy

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

— George Bernard Shaw

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write,…

— Anonymous

It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up…

— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood