Book Quote by Kelly Sue DeConnick Download Open image “My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.” — Kelly Sue DeConnick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Creator Mainstream Sells
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores. — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Buying new books supports the writer by providing both a royalty and an audience; a writer whose book sells well has a better chance… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself. — John Kremer Copy Share Image
Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore.… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them. — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
“All aspiring writers say these things: "I will not compromise and write a best seller!"—as if they could! There may be a few totally… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right. — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired,… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
When I'm looking for a strong female character, or a strong character at all, I'm looking for a character that has a purpose in that story, that has an interior life of some sort. They don't have to be physically strong; they don't have to be morally strong or ethically strong, because men and women come in a huge variety… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share
I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in numbers during the war. Then Wonder Woman had another rise in the '70s when Gloria Steinem latched on to her as an icon for the [feminist] movement. I think we're seeing another wave of… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share
What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback loop now. I'm very active on Tumblr and I have a very active engagement with readers and I love it, but I don't want to start writing to try to please someone else. I don't… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share
The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
I don't think we're supposed to say [expletive deleted] anymore. — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
There's a difference between feeling like I don't need to explain and deliberately confusing you. If the impression is that I'm deliberately confusing you,… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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