“Why should Apple shareholders be getting rich while working journalists are getting fired? This is an unjust situation, and the libertarians in Silicon Valley are either moral idiots or liars.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, Technology
“I think the tech corporations are like the nineteenth-century coal magnates, and the freelance writers are like the people slaving in the mines, the only difference being that the tech corporations can't stop congratulating themselves on how they've liberated everybody.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, Technology
“Who said it's the writer's job to be liked by everybody?”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, How to be a writer
“I haven't googled myself since the fall of 2001.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, Quote of the Moment
“The publishing industry looks a lot like one of these bestselling teenage dystopias: white and full of people destroying one another to survive.”— Daniel Jose Older, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, Music
“The market, I am told, just doesn't demand this kind of book... because white kids won't buy a book with a black kid on the cover -- or so The Market says, despite millions of music albums that are sold in just that way.”— Daniel Jose Older, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, Music
“Your story doesn't end when your dreams come true; it changes.”— Malinda Lo, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money
“I expected that once I sold my first novel, the hardest part would be over...I also expected that becoming a successful novelist would be difficult; that is the only expectation that has turned out to be true.”— Malinda Lo, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money
“Plenty of authors who appear to be successful in public are, in private, struggling to get by on dwindling royalty payments, or working an unglamorous day job, or are married to someone with a much more reliable income.”— Malinda Lo, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, How to be a writer
“I mean, sure, do what you love, but do it on the nights-and-weekends plan.”— Austin Kleon, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, How to be a writer
“But look, a lot of the people who ask me for advice, they're not just asking about how to be a writer. Because everyone knows that: How to be a writer is: you write all the time, and you read all the time, and eventually maybe you'll write something worth reading. The question people are really aski…”— Austin Kleon, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, How to be a writer
“When I do those books, I know it's a product. I know it's going to be shelved in a certain part of the bookstore. So what I try to do is inject it with as much artfulness and as much of myself and as much honesty as I can. But it never leaves me, the fact that I'm making something that's going to ha…”— Austin Kleon, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money
“But what I quickly realized is, I'm not quitting my day job. I'm swapping one day job for another.”— Austin Kleon, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money
“People hear 'NYT bestseller' and they think, 'Oh, he's a millionaire or something', which is just ridiculous as anyone who's been on that list can tell you.”— Austin Kleon, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money
“It wasn't that I'd landed in ruin. It was that I hadn't landed yet.”— Sarah Smarsh, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, For when things seem hard
“But you get the sites you want to visit, and in the end, no matter how much venture capital they have, they'll continue to exist because of ads.”— Choire Sicha, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money
“If you ever want to see something sad, ask a room full of freelance writers about their tax strategies. It's like asking a pack of baby kittens about space travel.”— Choire Sicha, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, Quote of the Moment
“Forty percent of my income comes from teaching, thirty percent from speaking, and about thirty percent from writing.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money
“I love teaching and I love the security of a regular paycheck, and I especially love health insurance.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money
“I just have a relentless work ethic, I guess.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.comTagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money