Books Quote by Sean Platt

“People can’t read a book if they don’t know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.”

— Jo Linsdell

“Profitable bookstores sell books. Unprofitable book sellers store books.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“For publishers are not just employers and financial risk-takers: they are also cultural mediators and arbitrators of quality and taste.”

— John B. Thompson

“Most people go in bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, almost magically willing people to…

— Cecelia Ahern

“I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. ”

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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 replacement of independent bookstores by firms such as Barnes & Noble, Waterstones or Borders superficially provided a wide range of reading, but their…

— Sara Ayad

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker

“I don’t want to be one of those writers a publisher will publish just to make a buck. I want to be a writer…

— Steven Lloyd

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

— Anne Bernays

“A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!”

— George Gissing