Believe Quote by Carlos Fuentes

“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

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

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

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

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to…

— Ken Follett

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

— Richard Laymon

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

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

— Vikram Seth

There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a…

— Michelle Dean

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

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