“It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us.”— Malcolm Gladwell, amazon.com
“This is the crux of the problem. From doctors to hospitals to labs to device manufacturers to anybody else we want to blame, they don’t overprice things and sell us things we don’t need because they are greedy, evil people. They do it because we tell them to, in the clearest language possible: money…”— Joe Flower, healthcareinamerica.us
“Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance?”— Candace Schuler, amazon.com
“I will never put a nigga above this money. I'ma wake up and just hug this money.”— Rihanna, open.spotify.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“I mean, sure, do what you love, but do it on the nights-and-weekends plan.”— Austin Kleon, amazon.com
“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.com
“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.com
“But what I quickly realized is, I'm not quitting my day job. I'm swapping one day job for another.”— Austin Kleon, amazon.com
“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.com