Believe Quote by Philip Pullman

Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is a real…

— Graham Swift

The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work…

— Graham Swift

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

— Alice Mattison

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at base, it's…

— Olga Tokarczuk

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look…

— Dan Poynter

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell…

— W. P. Kinsella

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

— David Foster Wallace

The royalty any author gets is dependent on his track record and marketability and often on the price of his book, too. The higher…

— Ravi Subramanian

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

— Ben Katchor

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work…

— Richard Gere