Advice Quote by Ryan Holiday

I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens…

— Kevin Sampsell

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the…

— Peter Sotos

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important…

— John Locke

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade…

— Ian Frazier

You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.

— John Kremer

I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the…

— Douglas Coupland

It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They…

— John Irving

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

— Dean Koontz

“People often ask me what advice I have for writers, and I reply that the most important responsibility I believe a writer has is…

— Clive Barker

When me and my author friends who write about other difficult subject matter... when you hear from teens daily saying, 'Your book helped me…

— Jay Asher