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[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

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

— Anonymous

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

— Malcolm Cowley

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

You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three…

— Chad Harbach

Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.

— Pankaj Mishra

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

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in…

— James Lee Burke

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

— Susan Sontag

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition…

— Elmore Leonard

I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing…

— John Green

We have so many talented writers. Companies need to understand that smaller writers also need to be supported.

— Nicola Roberts