Author-platform Quote by Carole Jelen

“Platform, simply put, is your visibility as an author.”

— Chuck Sambuchino

“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Book authors are born where credentials meet platform.”

— Chuck Sambuchino

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

— Horace Walpole

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

— Marshall McLuhan

“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

“Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.”

— Rayne Hall

“If nobody else will give you a platform, build your own!”

— Suzette Vearnon

“In the end of the day you make the rules. Base your Author Platform around the things you love to do, love to write…

— Matthew Turner

“How and where authors connect with their readers will affect how and when readers buy.”

— Bernadette Baker-Baughman

“Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple…

— Mark Twain

“All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books.”

— Ray Bradbury