Arses Quote by Nicholas Royle

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

— Mickey Spillane

Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“She wrote for years, one book after another, just trying to get somewhere. At one point, despite all the roadblocks her publisher put in…

— Wendy Wax

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

— A. N. Wilson

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them…

— Mary Matalin

I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer,…

— Susan Orlean

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address…

— Kiran Desai

I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.

— Caroline Leavitt

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'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.

— Suze Orman

“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire…

— John Updike

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why…

— Anita Pallenberg