Book Quote by Neil Gaiman

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

— James Ellroy

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

No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.

— Jami Attenberg

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

— Peter Sotos

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

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to…

— Pearl S. Buck

“Writing your book is not the end all of your strategy. It is a powerful catalyst that will push you to the top of…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only…

— George Eliot

I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could…

— Benjamin Carson

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

— William Peter Blatty

I used to say that if I could get paid to read books, my life would be made.

— Anna Todd

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