Publishing Novels Quotes

#1. Sometimes, I'm brave.
Sometimes, I'm just stubbron.

Nigia Stephens

#2. They went bowling and curling and regularly joined other couples for coffee and doughnuts at Tim Horton's.

Alice Munro

#3. A good book is not the same as a successful one.

Johnny Rich

#4. Well, bless my soul, what stupid creatures one has to mix with in this world!

Knut Hamsun

#5. My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'

Nancy Lublin

#6. Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all across America. Not because my novels for young readers are bestsellers - they're not by a long shot - but because today's kids love to write to authors.

Rodman Philbrick

#7. Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.

Hugh Ross

#8. I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.

Gerard Butler

#9. Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.

Ted Cruz

#10. "It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart's desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing

Mariam Kobras

#11. I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

Jamie Dornan

#12. The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.

Marianne Cushing

#13. Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.

IO Tillett Wright

#14. In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting ... if ever it was.

Donna Lynn Hope

#15. Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.

Hallie Ephron

#16. In truth, I had not yet learned how to hate anyone but my parents. I was actually just standing there in love. I was not even really standing; if she had walked away suddenly, I would have fallen.

Miranda July

#17. I am an evil Giraffe.

Eddie Izzard

#18. I have been incredibly lucky with my novels but I had absolutely no idea if anyone would be interested in a cookbook. So I started to think about self-publishing.

Jane Green

#19. I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent of self-publishing, there were plenty of self-indulgent novels on the shelves.

Jennifer Armintrout

#20. Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Katherine Paterson

#21. I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

Patrick White

#22. The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.

Anurag Shourie

#23. Thus far, I've devoted my entire career to publishing genre short fiction, but I now look forward to applying that same level of curation to finding the best new novels and new authors.

John Joseph Adams

#24. The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges.

Max Anders

#25. My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.

Ashwin Sanghi

#26. Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark ... your words come out, and then nothing ... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.

Alice McDermott

#27. You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there's much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.

Chad Harbach

#28. 10% of authors earn 75% of the royalties. If you're writing a Romance novel, your odds will be slightly higher at making back your investment. Throw in a few vampires, even better.

J.R. Young