Money Quote by William Boyd

“It is better to be a reader than richer.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been…

— Walter Moers

“No one has expressed it better than a great novelist I heard once on a talk show who said something like "You want to…

— Anne Lamott

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

“You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.”

— Don Roff

“Van Houten, I'm a good person but a shitty writer. you're a shitty person but a good writer.”

— John Green

“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly.”

— Ken Scott

“Who is rich? The one who appreciates what he has.”

— 4:1 Ethics of the Fathers

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's…

— Colette

“Sometimes the writer has to learn the hard way of creating a bad work to become a best-seller yet doesn't surrender to the negative…

— Millicent Ashby

“Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations…

— Nora Roberts