Books Quote by Patrick deWitt

I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers…

— Patrick deWitt

I'm not happy that death is approaching because I like being alive but I'm glad I've escaped the two-post-a-day economy of contemporary journalism. Good…

— Robert Christgau

It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break…

— Jim C. Hines

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and…

— Anonymous

“There are many good reasons for writing that have nothing to do with being published. Writing is a powerful search mechanism, and one of…

— William Knowlton Zinsser

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a…

— Carlos Fuentes

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

— Charles Stross

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get…

— Anne Lamott

I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

— J. D. Salinger

I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.

— Lynne Tillman

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

— V. S. Naipaul