Books Quote by Sarah Weinman

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

— Mickey Spillane

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning…

— David Toop

“romance authors like Catherine Coulter, Brenda Joyce, Candice Proctor, Bertrice Small, Diana Gabaldon, and Jade Lee.”

— Ellery Adams

Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to…

— John Hodgman

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to…

— Daniel H. Wilson

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a…

— Robert Barr

[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to…

— Manning Marable

The quality I appreciated most about Grafton was her loyalty. She stuck with 'Kinsey Millhone' and the alphabet series conceit for her entire career…

— Sarah Weinman

“She wrote for years, one book after another, just trying to get somewhere. At one point, despite all the roadblocks her publisher put in…

— Wendy Wax

I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so supportive of me when I…

— Adam Silvera

“Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.”

— Rayne Hall

Nalini Singh, J.D. Robb, Patricia Briggs, Shelby Reed - these are my pre-order, must-have authors.

— Sylvia Day