Bookshops Quote by John Scott

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

— Willa Cather

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell…

— W. P. Kinsella

My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors,…

— David Edelstein

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are…

— Frederick Busch

The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out…

— George R. R. Martin

Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books…

— Olivia Goldsmith

There's so much published by so many different publishers. Most of the time, I don't have to confront that, but walking into a conference…

— Chris Pavone

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been…

— Mark Haddon

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not…

— Doris Lessing