Book Quote by Caroline Leavitt

Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.

— Michelle Dean

I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned savings -…

— Ruskin Bond

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

“Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is…

— Anonymous

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 know people think that having a regular publisher is more prestigious, there is even this idea that self-publishing is a result of being…

— Caroline Calloway

I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

— Michael Korda

“Self publishing' is not as easy as it is portrayed! When you think you have finished your book, proof read, proof read again, and…

— Phil Simpkin

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

— Ben Katchor

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener

“My definition of self-published: A printed work distributed by someone who believes more in sharing their story than making a fortune.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon