Agents Quote by Micah Perks

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

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of…

— Karen Thompson Walker

As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.

— Colson Whitehead

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

— Richard Laymon

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

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel…

— George Bernard Shaw

“All books are good,’ he said. ‘That’s not true,’ I said. ‘I’ve read some really bad books.’ I was thinking specifically of Anne of…

— Lisa Jewell

The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not…

— Doris Lessing

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

You always hope a book's going to be a success. I don't think I've ever written a book thinking, 'This will be bad and…

— Ryan North