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When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of my books for pounds 500.

— Emma Tennant

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✓Similar Perspectives

My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me.

— Jenny Nimmo

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

— Sonny Bill Williams

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

— Bobby Fischer

Books were in my family - books were my family.

— Joshua Cohen

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

— Geraldine Brooks

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

— Kevin J. Anderson

I was a member of Corstorphine Library in Edinburgh, and every Friday night, my parents took me there to borrow books. I also used to spend nearly all my pocket money on books.

— Philip Kerr

In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

— Halsey

I spent my entire first pay cheque from 'Cracker,' a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.

— Josh Hartnett

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.

— Kiran Desai