230 Quotes About Publishing

When efforts were being made for 'Gottland' to appear on the French market, I heard that there were fears that it might not attract any readers. It wasn't certain if anyone in the West would be interested in what a Pole has to say about the Czechs. I could understand that — a representative of one marginal nation writing about another marginal nation is unlikely to be a success.

Every time you publish a book, be prepared to eat a fresh slice of humble pie.

You may as well attempt to colonise the moon with white mice as publish a volume of poetry'.

It was one of the realities of publishing: what was truly new often languished in the warehouse nearly unasked-for. One of the tricks of publishing was catching the wave of public taste at the right moment.

Most of the smaller houses had been gobbled up by so-called general-interest publishers, most of them now owned in turn by much bigger conglomerates who’d publish anything they could get their hands on that had a chance of making money.

For all his profanity and bedroom antics, though, Homer was a relative prude when it came to misbehaving on the page.

People can’t read a book if they don’t know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.

A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars.

Sometimes, I'm brave.Sometimes, I'm just stubbron.