Ideas Quote by Donald E. Westlake

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

— Amish Tripathi

Selling an idea to a publisher is not as valuable as selling your audience to a publisher.

— Sarah Cooper

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

— Jim Harrison

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

— Aleksandar Hemon

It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break…

— Jim C. Hines

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

— Chuck Eddy

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

— William Targ

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

— Frank Gehry

The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.

— Anna Todd

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

— Emma Donoghue

Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

— Agatha Christie

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

— Fay Weldon