Book Quote by Margaret Atwood

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

— Margaret Atwood

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

— Charles Stross

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

— Jay Asher

Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book, you never…

— Nick Laird

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

You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

— Alexander Theroux

Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people…

— Scott Spencer

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

Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book and sent…

— Michael Scott

“I often think publishing a book is like doing a poo. Once it's ready for the world, you have to relinquish that control and…

— H.O. Charles

Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing…

— Garth Nix