Audience Quote by Richard Laymon

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of…

— Karen Thompson Walker

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

— Ann Patchett

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that.

— Micah Perks

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

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

— Orson Scott Card

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

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

— Anonymous