Book Quote by Charlie Huston

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

— Vince Flynn

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made…

— Ahmet Zappa

Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.

— Tara Westover

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

— V. S. Naipaul

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

— Charles Stross

Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and throwing it…

— Gary Dell'Abate

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

— Michael Korda

It's so exciting when a book catches traction you didn't even expect (or completely did expect!), and so frustrating when a book never quite…

— Danielle Dutton

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I've found a bit of success in my career, and I'm very relieved by it, but the success that comes after a book is…

— Lauren Grodstein

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 think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett