230 Quotes About Publishing

Digital distribution has widened the reading world.

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled.

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.

Still, to be urged to write and to be urged to publish are two different things and nobody so far was urging her to do the latter.

If you can dream it, you can do it!

Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.

Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live . . . or live for long.