Book Quote by Ann Patchett

I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell.

— Sudha Murty

You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the…

— Larry Winget

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

If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.

— Heather Hart

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating…

— Gary Ross

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the…

— Paul Theroux

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

— William Targ

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

— Ann Patchett

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market.…

— Hilary Mantel

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the…

— Isabel Allende