Alas Quote by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get…

— Kate Thompson

There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours…

— Michael Longley

I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum,…

— Dean Koontz

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they…

— Gail Caldwell

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

— Ann Goldstein

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

— Jim Harrison

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

— Chuck Palahniuk

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

— Paul Fussell

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

— Nicholas Sparks

I feel like people who criticize authors for being self-promotional fail to recognize that a lot of times their ability to continue writing hinges…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Unfortunately, mainstream news has become infotainment, sharing more in common with the entertainment industry than with traditional journalism. Gossip, characterizations and injections of drama…

— Lance Morcan