Advice Quote by James Salter

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

— Sara Sheridan

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

— Wilbur Smith

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market.…

— Hilary Mantel

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

— Hilary Liftin

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 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

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over…

— Anita Diament

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.

— Jackie Kennedy

My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general,…

— Marilynne Robinson

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

No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go…

— Joyce Carol Oates