“It's great being a part time writer. If you sell books you're a success. But if you don't sell any then all you have to say is " writing is just an amusing hobby".”
“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue--you sell him a whole new life.”
“You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're an author.”
“What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.”
“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”
“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.”