Book Quote by Dan Chaon

The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission…

— Seth Godin

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

— Colm Toibin

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only…

— Anonymous

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did…

— Robert Caro

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

— Mohsin Hamid

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look…

— Dan Poynter

That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away for a…

— Nick Flynn

I've never had much notoriety. It's fine with me.

— James Harden

You would have to be very optimistic to think that any of your books will be among the books that survive in the very…

— James Salter

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

— John Berger

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

— Neil Gaiman

There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.

— Dani Shapiro