25 Quotes About Publishing-books

Writing is a solitary endeavor, being an author is not.

Knowing your whole world is about to change, how can you sleep?

With its weight and solidity, a book signals to the world that there are ideas worth preserving in a form that carries heft, and takes up space; by its touchability, a book signals the importance of our engagement in an arena external to and larger than ourselves.

My mantra, thinking of authors, is that it is good to create, better to create and publish, and best to create, publish, and monetize. May every author be successful in all these matters.

Think of your book’s title as a headline for a breaking news story. For as long as newspapers (and now internet news content) have been around, diligent scribes have been searching their thesauruses for the right combination of power words for headlines as a way to draw in readers’ curiosity…

An ISBN is assigned to each specific format of a book and never reused. Like golf, the rules are made-up and simple, but can be misinterpreted or applied incorrectly.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.