Book Quote by Louise Brown

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

“And if publishers are too skittish to bite—sell it as goddamn fiction. Make yourself the author and change the names if necessary. Do whatever…

— Joshua V. Scher

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

— Michael Connelly

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

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

— Fay Weldon

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

— David Baldacci

Like most new writers, I could only hope that one day one publisher might agree to publish one of my books; I couldn't imagine…

— Emma Healey

Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was…

— George R. R. Martin

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

— Emma Donoghue

“After publishing a book, start writing the next. And repeat. Don't get hung up on overmarketing the books, focus more on getting more books…

— Crissi Langwell

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to…

— Dean Koontz

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to…

— Colson Whitehead