Book Promotion Quotes

#1. [On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

Rosellen Brown

#2. I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

Peter James

#3. Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

Julian Barnes

#4. The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that ...

Bella Andre

#5. Book buying is a relationship activity, and you need a means to develop relationships with readers and new fans of your work

Barb Drozdowich

#6. The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

Mickey Spillane

#7. Oh, honey, of course it hurts! Beauty is pain. But you don't want to look like a troll, do you?

Libba Bray

#8. You can write the most wonderful book in the world. But if people don't know about your book they won't know to buy it.

Madi Preda

#9. If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a very Merry Christmas,

Gillian Flynn

#10. They say 90% of the promotion of a book comes through word of mouth. But you've somehow got to get your book into the hands of those mouths first!

Claudia Osmond

#11. I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

Mary J. Blige

#12. What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.

John Updike

#13. It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.

Nick Baylis

#14. You make your life with someone and you love that person and you think it's enough. But it's never enough, is it?
I couldn't say. I don't know anything about love anymore.

Paula McLain

#15. The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#16. I know the Lord loves me.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

Sarah Dessen

#18. So we came to say hello. To the world's grouchiest person. Because that's such fun.

Molly Ringle

#19. In their thought-provoking book Focus, researchers Tory Higgins and Heidi Grant Halvorson argue that people lean toward being "promotion-focused" or "prevention-focused" in their aims.

Gretchen Rubin

#20. 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

#21. There has to be a balance in life. A balance of business, family, and the opportunity to learn and teach.

Chuck Feeney

#22. That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

Zoe Whittall

#23. Absolute power has corrupted and the absence of checks and balances seems complete.

Patricia Cornwell

#24. There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working.

Carol Alt

#25. It's funny: I spend time in the book criticizing social media, but I'm also aware that a lot of my success is because of social media. I can broadcast myself and my work to thousands of people that are following me or my friends. I do think that social media can be good for self-promotion.

Kim Stolz

#26. Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen.

Marc Jacobs

#27. There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.

Dani Shapiro