Book Quote by Lynne Tillman

You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three…

— Chad Harbach

There's a reason that so much good material is coming down to the small presses: it's difficult to turn a profit, all things considered.…

— Andrew Latimer

“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

I had a nice part at big newspapers, small newspapers, and then I went to a very big newspaper - 'The Wall Street Journal.'…

— Erik Larson

The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books I sell,…

— Chuck Klosterman

I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn't move to the larger presses until they knew…

— Lydia Davis

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…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write,…

— Anonymous

Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.

— Tucker Max

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing…

— Aidan Chambers

I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

— Michael Korda

I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult…

— Jennifer Gilmore