Book Quote by Iain Pears

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

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

— Margaret Atwood

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“You can write the most wonderful book in the world. But if people don’t know about your book they won’t know to buy it.”

— Madi Preda

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.

— Rebecca Stead

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

— Paul Theroux

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.

— Carolyn Hart

I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's…

— Richard Prince

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

The simple fact is, the more people who buy your books, the more are likely to read you. That's what I'd like to see…

— Joe R. Lansdale