Answer Quote by Robert Gottlieb

Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in…

— Amanda Hocking

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

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

I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing…

— Jennifer Gilmore

Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year,…

— Viggo Mortensen

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays…

— Raymond Chandler

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

— Anonymous

The experience that a publication creates for its audience is the very essence of that publication's brand - and without deep engagement, that publication's…

— John Battelle

The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not…

— Doris Lessing

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest…

— Nicholson Baker

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

— Ben Katchor