Book Launch Quotes

#1. What to do Before Your Book Launch is the new invaluable tool for writers. There is so much to know and now it's all in one place.

Julie Klam

#2. When the book is over, I think of innovative marketing ways to reach to a larger audience. I think wine and cheese book launch parties are a waste.

Amish Tripathi

#3. With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

Ibrahim Babangida

#4. 3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. A lot of hard work and dedication goes into every launch. What are you doing to launch? Are you doing the proper work needed? Are you dedicated?

Robert D. Kintigh

#5. There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler.

George MacDonald

#6. The truth is that anxiety is at once a function of biology and philosophy, body and mind, instinct and reason, personality and culture.

Scott Stossel

#7. I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

David Maraniss

#8. By all means use some time to be alone.

Edward Young

#9. In the lead-up to the launch of my new book I Was Here, I've seen a lot of discussion about depression and suicide and mental health and YA dealing with such intense matters. What I haven't seen discussed is kittens.

Gayle Forman

#10. It is far easier to launch oneself from a high place in the hope of sprouting wings, than it is to write a book. Yet once you've mastered it, you will be soaring higher than the birds.

Harrison Davies

#11. In a successful launch, the author believes that buying their book is actually a good thing for people to do.

Tim Grahl

#12. Sometimes, music is like poop. It just has to come out.

Mark Salling

#13. Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.

Alvaro Siza Vieira

#14. A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

Talcott Parsons

#15. Eastman Jacob's legendary attempt to launch a car attached to a glider plane using Hampton's Tony Chesapeake Avenue as a runway only confirmed the Hamptonian's feelings that the Good Lord didn't always see fit to give book sense and common sense to the same individual.

Margot Lee Shetterly