Authenticity Quote by Oprah Winfrey

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just…

— James Frey

When James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said.

— Michelle Dean

I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

— Dave Barry

The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not…

— Doris Lessing

“Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

— Mark Millar

I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier for a…

— Matt Haig

We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into…

— Madison Grant

Most people do not pay attention to the publisher's imprint on a given book.

— Michelle Dean

I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that is savagely…

— Andrea Dworkin

It's so exciting when a book catches traction you didn't even expect (or completely did expect!), and so frustrating when a book never quite…

— Danielle Dutton

I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away.

— Tim O'Reilly