Books Quote by Andrew Shaffer

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are…

— Ruth Stout

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

— Anonymous

“We have learnt a lesson: words written in books, all of them, are lies. There are no exceptions. Words written on papers are all…

— NisiOisiN

Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.

— Patti Davis

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

— Alexander Theroux

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

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

— Joseph O'Neill

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on,…

— Richard Curtis

The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of…

— Agnes Repplier

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to…

— Margaret Atwood

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy"…

— Charles Stross

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

— Henry David Thoreau