Audience Quote by Sarah Cooper

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

— Donald E. Westlake

The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“do NOT go pulling things you like out of your novel because some forum person told you your idea "won't sell.”

— Rachel Aaron

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you…

— Kate Cary

I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

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 a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

— Nicholas Sparks

When I realized that I can invest in my own marketing and do exactly what I think needs to be done - well, then…

— Anna Todd

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

— Michael Korda

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

— William Targ

Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

— David Meerman Scott