Best Quote by Om Malik

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at…

— Harlan Coben

No other serial publications carry a number on them that is of any weight to their readership. The number is there to serve a…

— Tom Brevoort

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

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

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

— Justin Cronin

I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that they can…

— Michel Faber

“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.”

— Greg Curtis

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

— Amish Tripathi

“The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.”

— Sara Sheridan