Book Quote by Erica Jong

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and…

— Walter Kirn

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

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not…

— Chad Harbach

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until…

— Lisa Jewell

Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your…

— Sharon Creech

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to…

— Laini Taylor

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single…

— Karrine Steffans

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

— George Singleton

Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort…

— Dan Poynter

My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive when there's…

— Julia Glass