“However warm the fuzzies might get because we love reading, there’s still a bottom line.”— Heather Demetrios, medium.com
“No writer I knew had a person they trusted to advise on finance: it’s a notoriously predatory industry and our unconventional earnings make getting clear advise difficult indeed.”— Heather Demetrios, medium.com
“Did anyone working with me — agency, publishing team — tell me that a staggering advance was not something I should depend on or get used to and that, in fact, it’s extraordinarily common in the publishing industry for untested debuts to be paid large sums they will never see again? No.”— Heather Demetrios, medium.com
“Congratulations, you thrillingly, thrillingly adept journalist, you have discovered that Lauren Duca is not perfect. Put it in the headline, baby.”— Lauren Duca, buzzfeednews.com
“It’s a fantasy to be perfect out of the gate or perfect after a few years, but mastery takes a lot of work and it takes working every day at it.”— Chrissy Stockton, medium.com
“I own that reaction. I felt that thing. No one can say I didn't feel that feel.”— Ariel Meadow Stallings, offbeathome.com
“It literally took me fourteen years to 'make it' in any real, bill-paying way in show business.”— Karen Kilgariff, amazon.com
“After all, most writers (and other types of creatives) struggle with making a living from the thing, they love the most.”— Tim Rettig, writingcooperative.com
“Strictly book-related income — which is to say royalties and advances — are also down, almost 30 percent for full-time writers since 2009.”— Concepción de León, nytimes.com
“We should proceed in a spirit of humility, with the awareness that nobody has the franchise on truth, especially when it comes to the complexities and nuances of a troubled family system. Tell the truth, but aim for mercy.”— Steve Almond, nytimes.com
“You wait for the right moment, and it will come to you. You need confidence that you will get an idea. And I have confidence because I have been writing for almost 40 years, and I know how to do it.”— Haruki Murakami, nytimes.com
“The job of memoir is not the job of journalism. There is no pretense of 'objective memoir.'”— Sara Benincasa, medium.com
“If you make money you are always ensured work. It's a capitalist society baby.”— Bret Easton Ellis, reddit.com
“I like to keep "office hours" meaning pretty much 10-6 in the office working on various projects. If something is due I might go late, overtime, but usually prefer evenings to be open.”— Bret Easton Ellis, reddit.com
“I know you fuck with NPR dad. So stop telling me to go to grad school because I know you heard me on this.”— Issa Rae, youtube.com
“You're not here to line up behind what's cool, you're here to share what you truly love even if people aren't into it at the moment.”— John Mayer, instagram.com