Top Publishing Quotes

Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.

Rejection is no badge of honour.

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(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Publish

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

Only a few short years ago, the average stay-at-home mom spent her relaxation time reading Jackie Collins and staring at the pool boy. Now, half of them are outselling Jackie Collins writing porn abou...

Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback.

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at...

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.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

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.

I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimate...

Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.

Publishing is definitely something you do because you enjoy educating or entertaining people.

In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work.

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!