Book Quote by Paula Broadwell

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

I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about…

— Michael Lewis

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

— James Ellroy

When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too…

— Nick Earls

The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year…

— Bentley Little

The millionaire says to a thousand people, 'I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.' Guess how many go…

— Jim Rohn

It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

— Emily Barton

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

— Clive Cussler

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote…

— Jim Gaffigan

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

— William Peter Blatty

“Let me remind you again that when you put a book out there, you are a published author in a space where you are…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

— Seneca the Younger