Believe Quote by John Hodgman

There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book,…

— Frank Herbert

“The primary reason more explicit material is now being published is twofold: there's money in the sale of sensational material, and few are trying…

— Linda Harvey

Putting out a book is absolutely a lesson in vulnerability because it doesn't matter how much of an audience you have. Some people who…

— Luvvie Ajayi

It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend…

— Isaac D'Israeli

“You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to make a…

— Yann Martel

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor…

— George Bernard Shaw

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the…

— Henry Miller

The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book…

— John Ruskin

“I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a…

— Nick Hornby

Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing to aim…

— Amanda Foreman

Amazon has massively - and I'm trying not to use this particular word, but I can't not use it here - disrupted the business…

— Lina Khan

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