Books Quote by Nick Denton

“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

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

— Jay Asher

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

— Anonymous

We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone…

— Robert Gottlieb

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

— Dan Brown

“Books have a publishing standard, and every Indie Author is responsible to their readers in making sure those standards are met or exceeded.”

— Eeva Lancaster

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

— Tony Hillerman

Everything I publish is for my readers.

— Felix Dennis

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

— Fay Weldon

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to…

— Margaret Atwood

“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.”

— Loren Weisman

“It takes a great reader to make a great book. (Creative Self-Publishing)”

— Orna Ross