Becoming famous Quote by Iain Banks

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you…

— Kate Cary

I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book.

— Navya Nair

“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.”

— Jay Taylor

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

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

I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that say, 'don't…

— Alyson Richman

“Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!”

— Tony Jones

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

— William Targ

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

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and…

— Erica Jong

I know important literary writers who can't get published.

— Frederick Busch

The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up…

— Ellen Gilchrist