I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!
Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.
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As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.
For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.
A good book is not the same as a successful one.
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.
Content is King. Promotion is Queen
We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.
Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, f...
It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It happened when publishers and editors cut back on their drinking. If there is one...
It's called publishing. It's how smart people install new ideas into other peoples brains.
It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.
Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.
As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.
When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become , tha...
Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We're sorry, but no... and then more beautiful things. It's a shit sandwich with branston pickle and melted gouda.I read it out loud to the kids. I s...
Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!
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.
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