Quotes About Books

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five.

Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.

Like most new writers, I could only hope that one day one publisher might agree to publish one of my books; I couldn't imagine several publishers all wanting to buy the first book I'd written.

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

The publishing industry is not immune to gossips.

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.

The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.

Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.

I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect.

Children's publishing is the jewel in the crown of British publishing.

Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

I love digital books. And I actually started digital-first publishing back in 2005.

Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.

Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.