Quotes About Publishing

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.

Truth is, people like buying things for $0.99 and $1.99 for their digital devices. We know that from iTunes. We know that from the app store, and now we know that from publishing.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media.

Before social media, if I, as an individual wanted to publish something to the world, unless I could get some local TV crew to interview me, or I wrote an op-ed or took out an ad, I had no voice.

I'm really good at making software for publishing.

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?