Business Quote by Sylvia Beach

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not…

— Chad Harbach

Getting published was like God stamping you 'acceptable,' and all of a sudden you can start writing for other places.

— Steven Rinella

First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas someone who…

— Frederick Busch

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

— Sarah Dessen

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and…

— Anonymous

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak…

— Ernest Hemingway

I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.

— Tomi Adeyemi

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and…

— Erica Jong

“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.”

— Greg Curtis

“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.”

— Michelle M. Pillow