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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

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

— Bob Schieffer

I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write good things.…

— Debbie Reynolds

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

— Joe R. Lansdale

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call…

— Malcolm Forbes

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.

— William Monahan

I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people…

— Chad Harbach

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

— Nicola Roberts

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

— Lillian Hellman

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

— Fay Weldon