Tara Westover Quotes

The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

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.

I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect.

Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

A book's title is vital.

In 2008, when I wrote Book 1 and Book 2, the head of the publishing house suggested twelve books - one each month. For practical reasons, that didn't work out.

As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.

I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

I did have a nice career in print, but traditional publishers don't always have the resources to create individualized marketing for their authors. Mine never figured out how to package books as hot as mine so that they found their full audience. Finally, I got frustrated enough over my lack of traction to walk away.

A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work.

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

I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.

I want to write a best-selling book.

To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.