Believe Quote by Richard Curtis

God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean…

— Iain Pears

Authors should be as involved with the marketing of their books as they want to be. No more, no less. I happen to recognized,…

— Steve Almond

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

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market.…

— Hilary Mantel

“I often think publishing a book is like doing a poo. Once it's ready for the world, you have to relinquish that control and…

— H.O. Charles

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

— Richard Laymon

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the…

— Larry Winget

“You can write the most wonderful book in the world. But if people don’t know about your book they won’t know to buy it.”

— Madi Preda

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell.

— Sudha Murty

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