Books Quote by Sean Platt

“All indies self-publish but not all self-publishers are indie.”

— Orna Ross

“Every skillful writer foregrounds notable aspects of experience, details that might otherwise be lost in the mass of data that continuously bathes our senses…

— Alain de Botton

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially those as…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature…

— Leland Ryken

“There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.”

— Elizabeth Hernandez

“When becoming a writer don’t think of success, imagine you are throwing your book into a vast ocean with the only hope that enough…

— Mark L Lloyd

“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people…

— William Gaddis

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

— Edward M. Lerner

“Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.”

— F. Sionil José

When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first…

— Karan Mahajan