Age Quote by Norah Vincent

With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel - but rarely for content, and especially not without a widespread outcry.

— Andrew Shaffer

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens…

— John Green

Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.

— Ben Domenech

My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books.…

— Tao Lin

“Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.”

— Rayne Hall

“Books, including those written by famous authors, may sit unread on forgotten shelves, attracting dust rather than readers’ attention.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

— Walter Savage Landor

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. . . . If it is a good book…

— Wendy Wax

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

“Don't give up on the power of books to change lives and the world. As everything goes digital, book formats will morph, but their…

— David Marshall

I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that,…

— Junot Diaz

“We have learnt a lesson: words written in books, all of them, are lies. There are no exceptions. Words written on papers are all…

— NisiOisiN