Books Quote by Emma Healey

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

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot…

— Jay McInerney

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

— Emma Donoghue

The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores lose interest,…

— Jeff Giles

You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three…

— Chad Harbach

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another…

— George R. R. Martin

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

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

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

— Colm Toibin

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis