Attention Quote by Jim Trelease

Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste.' 'Where's the…

— David Droga

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett

T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you."

— Andy Stanley

People are more willing to buy branded goods provided they are persuaded that they are getting value from them. And they need to be…

— Andrew Curry

Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than…

— Anna Quindlen

I think of this a lot in the terms of books. Of course there's a big to-do culturally about e-books versus print books, sales…

— Ron Currie Jr

“If we rebuild our communities and begin to derive more meaning and a sense of the good life from them, many of us are…

— Naomi Klein

Marketing starts even before our books are published.

— Heather Hart

Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets,…

— Eliza Leslie

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

— Manuel Puig

This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly the same…

— Suzette Haden Elgin