Bigger Quote by Walter Moers

“The primary reason more explicit material is now being published is twofold: there's money in the sale of sensational material, and few are trying…

— Linda Harvey

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

— Ruth Ozeki

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no…

— George Murray

[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

“We have learnt a lesson: words written in books, all of them, are lies. There are no exceptions. Words written on papers are all…

— NisiOisiN

I just thought it made sense to call a book 'Not Garbage,' even though the majority of it was going to be the scraps…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

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

I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't…

— Nick Hornby

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are…

— Frederick Busch

The point about sales is relevant because it suggests there are cultures out there that are supporting and consuming, on a vast scale, challenging…

— Katie Kitamura

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels…

— Alexander Payne

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

— Theodore Sturgeon