Aravind Adiga Quotes

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

The big bestsellers aren't being created by Barnes & Noble.

We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.

There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.

What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.

I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.

Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.

I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

Publishing is not my world.

As an author, I love to know my book sells really well.

When I started writing, the deal was that publishers gave you a grand or two as an advance to buy some sweets, with the promise that they would make a big putsch with your fourth book when you'd built up a bit of a following. But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing.

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

I'd like to sell a lot of books.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.