230 Quotes About Publishing

Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.

Stop thinking “Outside the box” and look what is actually in the box first. You jump around from marketing gimmick to marketing gimmick without a clear plan or goal, hoping to reproduce someone else’s success without understanding all of the nuances and factors that went into that success. Further, people are so busy recreating the wheel that they have forgotten what the wheel looks like.

Good cover design is not only about beauty... it’s a visual sales pitch. It’s your first contact with a potential reader. Your cover only has around 3 seconds to catch a browsing reader’s attention. You want to stand out and make them pause and consider, and read the synopsis.

A vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his mind’s eye, his mother at a desk, writing in her journal, with hazy sunlight streaming through the morning windows. The woman inhabited a world he had once thought his own – a world of publishers and reliable suppliers. A London that was confident and competent amid its grey, puddle-strewn streets.

Publishing is definitely something you do because you enjoy educating or entertaining people.

It's called publishing. It's how smart people install new ideas into other peoples brains.