A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
Besides, said Mr Norrell, I really have no desire to write reviews of other people's books. Modern publications upon magic are the most pernicious things in the world, full of misinformation and wrong...
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Publish
Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.
I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.
The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.
I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.
It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.
Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someon...
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.
Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.
Dream up a book on Monday, publish it on Friday.
One of the greatest gifts we can give someone is our undivided attention--a thought that whispers constantly in the ear of any author who respects their readers.
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
In this age where people can become famous without doing anything, we are now encouraging a literary and publishing atmosphere where you must become famous before you can do anything.
If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.
I often think publishing a book is like doing a poo. Once it's ready for the world, you have to relinquish that control and let nature take its course. A few will be impressed by your creation, others...
Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had undergone a significant transformation or vanished: Cody’s in Berkeley, seven branch libraries in Phila...
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