Books Quote by Philip Reeve

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

Like most new writers, I could only hope that one day one publisher might agree to publish one of my books; I couldn't imagine…

— Emma Healey

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

— William Peter Blatty

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

— Jasper Fforde

I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a…

— J. K. Rowling

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

— Kate Morton

I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.

— Leandra Medine

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

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

— Colm Toibin

The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing fiction -…

— Michelle Gagnon

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be…

— William Monahan

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major…

— Jasper Fforde