Book Quote by Samuel Johnson

There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book,…

— Frank Herbert

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

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett

If the books are selling, the money will follow.

— Larry Kirshbaum

We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.

— 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

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

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

“No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

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