Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money. For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. Olivia Goldsmith One of the signs of Napoleon's greatness is the fact that he once had a publisher shot. The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor. In the publishing business you have to learn to greet failure with the same handshake as you would success. Tim Foote Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer.