Books Quote by George Bernard Shaw

I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that.

— Micah Perks

As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.

— Colson Whitehead

There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a…

— Michelle Dean

Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing…

— Garth Nix

“All books are good,’ he said. ‘That’s not true,’ I said. ‘I’ve read some really bad books.’ I was thinking specifically of Anne of…

— Lisa Jewell

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much…

— Ernest Hemingway

Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book, you never…

— Nick Laird

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost…

— Mohsin Hamid

To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be…

— Per Petterson