Being smart Quote by Ethan Canin

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs…

— Corra May Harris

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

— Annie Dillard

As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things.…

— Robert Greene

Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and…

— Robert Greene

That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So,…

— Sheri Fink

By the time that book So You Want to Be President? came along, we had already had enough presidents that had shown us that…

— David Small

It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message,…

— Jose Saramago

I'm not really a book person, to be honest.

— Jesse Lingard

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

— Tucker Max

I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might not have…

— Angie Thomas