Books Quote by Ravi Subramanian

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

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

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 money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.”

— Sara Sheridan

Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.

— Simon Sinek

“Authors write, readers read, money talks.”

— Toba Beta

People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it…

— Samuel Johnson

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

— Wole Soyinka

I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

— Larry Winget

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book,…

— Frank Herbert