Books Quote by William Faulkner

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

— James Ellroy

A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars…

— Mordecai Richler

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

— Sudha Murty

If the books are selling, the money will follow.

— Larry Kirshbaum

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

— Lorrie Moore

It may be time for serious literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and the movies.

— Scott Spencer

I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read.…

— Nick Hornby

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

— Jonathan Franzen

We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going…

— Robert Asprin

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

— William Peter Blatty

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it…

— John Tesh

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

— Thomas C Foster