Books Quote by Lee Child

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

— David Baldacci

My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until…

— Lisa Jewell

Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

— Michael Dirda

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

— Fay Weldon

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and…

— Erica Jong

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

— William Styron

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers…

— Amish Tripathi

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and…

— Anonymous

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not…

— Chad Harbach

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

— Megan McCafferty