Books Quote by Chris Pavone

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've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel…

— John Grisham

I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the…

— Philip Pullman

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

— Michael Connelly

I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety…

— Michael Korda

People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And…

— Amanda Hocking

My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors,…

— David Edelstein

The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace…

— Tahir Shah

Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books…

— Olivia Goldsmith

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

— Whitley Strieber

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and…

— John Locke

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last…

— Peter Sotos