Absolutely Quote by Tom Stoppard

I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell.

— Sudha Murty

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

— James Ellroy

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their…

— George Bernard Shaw

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

— Anonymous

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade…

— Ian Frazier

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot…

— Jay McInerney

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

— David Baldacci

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

— Ann Patchett

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies…

— Jodi Picoult

I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.

— Leandra Medine

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

— Lorrie Moore