Believe Quote by Michael Connelly

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

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another…

— George R. R. Martin

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

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.

— John Boyne

I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be…

— Sarah Dessen

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

— Anonymous

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who…

— David Eddings

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and…

— Robert Greene

There's so much published by so many different publishers. Most of the time, I don't have to confront that, but walking into a conference…

— Chris Pavone

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a…

— Mark Twain