Accountants Quote by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of…

— Seth Godin

What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper…

— John Green

Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort…

— Dan Poynter

“Book publishing is a passion that one hopes eventually becomes a good paying job.”

— Steven Magee

I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

— Michael Korda

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

— Ben Katchor

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

— William Targ

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

— Alexander Theroux

“Let me remind you again that when you put a book out there, you are a published author in a space where you are…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.

— John Kremer

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

— Seneca the Younger