Author Quote by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems…

— Thomas Wolfe

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

“To publish in the sense of making a book available to the public is easy – and never easier than it is today, when…

— John B. Thompson

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on,…

— Richard Curtis

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'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety…

— Michael Korda

I see a lot of writers who complain when their book doesn't sell and the reason that happens sometimes, is they don't know how…

— Kevin Sampsell

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy"…

— Charles Stross

Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books…

— Olivia Goldsmith

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

An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That keeps you…

— Ravi Subramanian

I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there…

— William Gibson