Book Quote by Margaret Atwood

You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

— Rumaan Alam

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

— Jay Asher

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

— Joseph Delaney

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.

— Lauren Groff

Why don't you write books people can read?

— Nora Joyce

God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean…

— Iain Pears

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to…

— Margaret Atwood

I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no…

— Shannon Hale

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

— Anonymous

When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good,…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I feel like every single time I've published a book, there's some little light in me that goes out. I've seen the way people…

— Sheila Heti