Believe Quote by Michael Longley

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get…

— Kate Thompson

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they…

— Gail Caldwell

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

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

— Hilary Mantel

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.

— Lionel Shriver

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

— Ann Goldstein

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our…

— Emma Donoghue

I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write good things.…

— Debbie Reynolds

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

— Chuck Palahniuk