Book Publishing Quotes
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Book Publishing Quotes & Sayings
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It's not about the size of your book, It's about the substance in it.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
But jackets are the redheaded stepchildren of book publishing. We blame them for everything.
— Gabrielle Zevin
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
— Bennett Cerf
You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing - grinding, buffing, and polishing - not writing.
— Guy Kawasaki
As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher.
— W. Terry Whalin
A new regulation for the publishing industry: The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.
— Calvin Trillin
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
— Jackie Kennedy
Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
— Bruce Jackson
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.
— Michael Korda
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
— V.S. Naipaul
If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.
— Heather Hart
I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
Although I now call him 'Sting' to his face, I can still distinguish 'Sting' from 'Gordon Sumner'.
— James Berryman
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
— Alan Dershowitz
Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.
— Adriana Trigiani
You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.
— Jayce O'Neal
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
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
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
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
Anyone who says it's easy to self-publish a book is either lying or doing a shitty job.
— Nan McCarthy
Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.
— Jay Taylor
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
