Book Publishing Quotes & Sayings
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The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. —
Michael Moorcock

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them. —
Michelle M. Pillow

I think that writing texts, publishing texts, selling texts in a physical book store is one of the important tools for breeding this new generation. —
Alexander Mamut

Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE! —
Tony Jones

Diabetic Diet. The premise of this book is to enable the reader to choose healthy foods by following a healthier more nutritious diet plan. —
Speedy Publishing

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. —
Salman Rushdie

When Sting arrived on Tyneside in November 1992, to receive his degree, he informed me that it was no longer me who was the skint one. —
James Berryman

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit. Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications —
Linda F. Radke

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so. —
William Targ

Again, the opportunity has come to start off with our best. Make sure all the 365 pages of your book are worth the writing; as well publishing for. —
Kaushal Yadav

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book. —
Jessa Crispin

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. —
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts. —
Richelle E. Goodrich

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place. —
Charles Stross

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing. —
Evgeny Morozov

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience. —
Charlie Huston

Every time you publish a book, be prepared to eat a fresh slice of humble pie. —
Shana James

There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour. —
Gerald Petievich

A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars. —
Etienne Davodeau

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public. —
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Hook your editor with a strong opening sentence to bring attention to your writing. —
W. Terry Whalin

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc. —
Alexander Theroux

One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books. —
Heather Hart

Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out! —
Carmen DeSousa

It's interesting that the
book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had. —
Edgar Bronfman Jr.

A good book is not the same as a successful one. —
Johnny Rich

The trick isn't to simply publish a book; the trick is to produce a quality book package to surround the book's content —
Hank Quense

No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself. —
Elinor Florence

An author's strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher's commitment to it. —
Sterling Lord

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. —
Dave Eggers

People can't read a book if they don't know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published. —
Jo Linsdell

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in
book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' —
Doris Lessing

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard. —
A.P. Fuchs

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers. —
Joni Rodgers

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. —
Don Marquis

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made. —
Lauren Oliver

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing. —
Maria Mitchell

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book. —
Tibor Fischer

After publishing a book, start writing the next. And repeat. Don't get hung up on overmarketing the books, focus more on getting more books out there —
Crissi Langwell

The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book —
Bernard Kelvin Clive

What is true for
book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory. —
Jason Epstein

Anyone who says it's easy to self-publish a book is either lying or doing a shitty job. —
Nan McCarthy

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is
book publishing. —
Daniel Clowes

Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part. —
Jay Taylor

I think that the economics of
book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first. —
Seth Godin

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book. —
Sara Sheridan

OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2 ... priceless. —
Salman Rushdie

There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous . —
Tushar Upreti

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write. —
George Orwell

No book or magazine article is for "everyone" so know your audience, then target them with your writing. —
W. Terry Whalin