Accounting Quote by Rita Mae Brown

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

A misconception that exists in the eyes of the general reading population is that authors make truckloads of money.

— Ravi Subramanian

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

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

— Wole Soyinka

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 think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

— Peter Sotos

Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

— Diane Garnick

“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

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that…

— Russell Banks

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard

I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people…

— Sara Sheridan