book royalties Quotes

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote a book. It's something real and tangible that sits on a shelf forever.

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.