Authors Quote by Jess Walter

I feel like people who criticize authors for being self-promotional fail to recognize that a lot of times their ability to continue writing hinges…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they couldn't get…

— Caroline Leavitt

When it comes to content, the best marketers know that self promotion is good!

— Kieran Flanagan

“What happens to the people who became writers because yakking and tweeting and bragging felt to them like intolerably shallow forms of social engagement?…

— Jonathan Franzen

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they…

— Gail Caldwell

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

— Laurence J. Peter

I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum,…

— Dean Koontz

I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

— Chris Isaak

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm really bad at self-promotion.

— Nnamdi Asomugha

If you are a business owner or trying to raise money-you must self promote.

— Ryan Serhant

Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion.

— Jeremy Davies