Attending Quote by Pete Earley

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

— Anonymous

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

— Shannon Hale

Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric…

— Karin Slaughter

My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until…

— Lisa Jewell

I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who…

— Steve Vai

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here…

— Kage Baker

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine…

— Joe R. Lansdale

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to…

— Colson Whitehead

There are people with much bigger profiles than mine who are talking about mental illness. I am going to try to use whatever platform…

— Mauro Ranallo