Books Quote by Andrew Shaffer

I've published several virtually invisible novels and several dozen even more invisible short stories over the years, all of which give me joy -…

— Scott Bradfield

“To publish in the sense of making a book available to the public is easy – and never easier than it is today, when…

— John B. Thompson

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much…

— Ernest Hemingway

The publishing industry provides a viable channel which enables a wide distribution of books that we're not seeing in any other way. Unfortunately, self-publishing…

— Sylvia Day

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major…

— Jasper Fforde

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want…

— Anne Tyler

I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than…

— Adam Lambert

A good novel editor is invisible.

— Terri Windling

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of…

— Karen Thompson Walker

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

— Richard Laymon

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

— Margaret Atwood

The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written;…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne