Book Quote by Richard Dawkins Download Open image “Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.” — Richard Dawkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Buzz Good Just Like Negative Positive Publishers Responses Sell Well
“In contrast to the notion that any publicity is good publicity, negative reviews hurt sales for some books. But for books by new or… — Jonah Berger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books I sell,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
As much as we don't want to hear it, book marketing is a huge part of becoming a successful author. — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value. — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it. — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and ‘improved’ by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries.90 This may explain some of the sheer strangeness of the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops around a major artery, then goes all the way back up again. It goes right past the larynx on the way down. All a decent designer would have to do is loop it off at that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image