Book Quote by Adam Silvera

As much as we don't want to hear it, book marketing is a huge part of becoming a successful author.

— Heather Hart

What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper…

— John Green

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

— Elmore Leonard

I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.

— Graeme Simsion

After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for them and…

— Jonathan Evison

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

— George Orwell

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is…

— T Bone Burnett

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

My books didn't fit a marketing niche.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.

— Eric Brown

Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What…

— Dani Shapiro

Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is a real…

— Graham Swift