Commodity Quote by Tillie Olsen

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as…

— Willa Cather

“Some people work for the money they can earn doing what they do. Others work because of a love of what they do. Writers…

— Daniel Kemp

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

— Irvin S. Cobb

Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather, most of…

— Melissa Scott

“However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing…

— Alice Driver

Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.

— William Zinsser

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper.…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I'm a writer, but this is a business. You have to look at it in the way you would look at any business.

— Janet Evanovich

“Writing: Turning one's worst moments into profit.”

— J.P. Donleavy

“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially…

— Ernest Hemingway

In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh