Quotes About Publishing

I write the books I want to write. I'm delighted if they sell well and I'm not expecting my publishers to just keep giving me money, but there's no way I want to bow to commercial pleasure. I mean, there's plenty of people publishing very good commercial stuff. If my stuff is commercial that's great, but it's not why I write.

Ask a book publisher how many copies a book has sold, and he or she, presuming you're not the author, will probably try to remember the size of the first printing, then double it. If you're the author, the publisher will try to remember the number of copies that were shipped and cut that in half in order to avoid encouraging you to expect a big royalty check.

The public has no idea that writing is a disease, and that the writer who publishes is like a beggar who exhibits his sores.

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

The public couldn't get enough; writers such as Braddon reaped a new financial harvest with every book. She admitted that she cranked out some volumes as bill-paying hack work. Once she complained to Bulwer Lytton that "the amount of crime, treachery, murder, slow poisoning & general infamy required by the halfpenny reader is something terrible,

I am insisting that you'd better know how to spell my name before you send me a book. And you definitely should know something about my history and the kinds of books I'm looking to publish.

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Writing would take a tremendous leap of faith because I'd have to invest a lot of time and energy into something that I don't know will get published.

Hatori: "SHIGURE... I WILL TELL EVERYONE IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT YOU, STARTING FROM WHEN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS OLD..." Shigure: "Sorry, Tohru-kun. My lips are sealed!

As long as algorithms determine the distribution of profits, they will also determine what gets published. The

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don't ever rush into print.

When I was older, I decided that getting a rejection slip was like being told your child was ugly. You got mad and didn't believe a word of it. Besides, look at all the really ugly literary children out there in the world being published and doing fine!

i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i should say irrelevant.

Don't be afraid of finishing a book and putting it out there for the world to see. If you're waiting for perfect, your wait will never end.