Book Quote by Douglas A. Martin

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

— Colm Toibin

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or…

— Molly Ringwald

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to…

— Dean Koontz

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

— Edward Abbey

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if…

— George Eliot

My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish…

— Colm Toibin

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor…

— Carl Hiaasen

When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his titles, I…

— John Fante

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and I would…

— Lucie Brock-Broido