Books Quote by Anne Applebaum

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

— Vince Flynn

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

— Alexander Theroux

I've come to see that these politicians that release books - no way are they actually writing those books. Not when they are working…

— Dean Wareham

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

— Ben Katchor

“No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the…

— Richard Castle

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.

— Charlie Huston

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

— Molly Ringwald

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly…

— Danielle Dutton

An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That keeps you…

— Ravi Subramanian

Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.

— Simon Sinek

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for…

— Jessa Crispin