Books Quote by kambiz mostofizadeh

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper.…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream”

— LaQuita Cameron

“Advertising, Marketing, PR can get more people to buy your book. Only great writing can get more people to love it.”

— Ashok Banker

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker

“Publishing a book is like giving birth. You labor over it and then produce what you think is the most beautiful thing in the…

— Jordan Silver

“Sell a million books - Very nice... Release a best seller - Amazing... Your book just makes one person smile, laugh or happy -…

— Jimmy Perrin

“Authors write, readers read, money talks.”

— Toba Beta

“When we are selling our ideas, the audience must first buy us.”

— Peter Coughter

“All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales you tell.”

— Ramsey Isler

“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana