Books Quote by Jack Kerouac

“Writing for publication is an odd hybrid of intimate self-exploration and public exhibitionsim.”

— Talia Vance

“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books…

— Steve Almond

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

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

— Jay Asher

You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.

— Nick Laird

“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

“Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is…

— Anonymous

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

— William Targ

“...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.”

— Scarlett Thomas

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means…

— Graham Swift

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies…

— Susan Sontag

Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.

— Jerry Stahl