230 Quotes About Publishing

Launching a new book is kind of scary; you spend such a long time alone with your characters, and then, in one sudden moment, they’re running wild into the hands of strangers…

It’s not about the size of your book, It’s about the substance in it!

Blogging isn’t about publishing as much as you can. It’s about publishing as smart as you can.

I was once told by a traditional publisher I write and publish more books than they can handle so I became a publisher. - Kailin Gow on being prolific

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.

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be.

Only a few short years ago, the average stay-at-home mom spent her relaxation time reading Jackie Collins and staring at the pool boy. Now, half of them are outselling Jackie Collins writing porn about the pool boy.The other half are writing reviews of them."[Surviving in the Amazon Jungle – How authors and reviewers can co-exist in a hostile environment (and run to court if they don’t), Blog post, March 20, 2014]