M. J. Rose Quotes

At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one.

I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.

I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit.

D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin... and you. I'll be there soon.

Greeting to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book has disclosed that only one winner may be allowed," he says. "Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor.

My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

Bill Clinton has a brand new book coming out in a few months and the Democrats are worried that the Clinton book might upstage the Kerry campaign. I'm thinking, hell, day-old meat loaf could upstage that campaign.

For me, promotional thing about some new album coming out destroys a lot of the excitement of making records. Records, movies, books - they're not supposed to be like math books. The purpose of them is to kind of take us out of ourselves and give us some sort of alternate experience or respite. To try to maximize the relationship of listening to a record through promotion is like experiencing driving a car by reading about stimulus programs. It kind of defeats the purpose.

As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things. Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and that's it.

The ones who show up to take, they show up and say, "Hi. My name is Steve. I'm an expert in this and I've studied this and I've worked with these clients." On every single power point presentation, it has their email, their Twitter handle and their Facebook account, so you can follow them. At the end, they tell you, "Please follow me." When you ask them a question, they say, "Well, I could tell you the answer, but you should really just read my book."

I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!

Moms come up to me at book signings.

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work. It's something I find very difficult. And yet, one does have some sense of responsibility towards one's publishers, to the people trying to sell the book.

I opened-up a yogurt, underneath the lid it said, "Please try again." because they were having a contest that I was unaware of. I thought maybe I opened the yogurt wrong. ...Or maybe Yoplait was trying to inspire me... "Come on Mitchell, don't give up!" An inspirational message from your friends at Yoplait, fruit on the bottom, hope on top.

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.