Books Quote by Julianna Baggott

“People can’t read a book if they don’t know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.”

— Jo Linsdell

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

— Michael Korda

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

— Edgar Allan Poe

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be…

— Diane Johnson

...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then…

— Stephen King

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

— Richard Laymon

You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

— Edith Wharton

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

— Anita Roddick

“The market doesn´t care about titles.”

— Alin Sav