Regina Brett Quotes

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

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.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

Take the time to shop for yourself and cook. All of this is an investment in yourself, and if you're not going to invest time and money in what you put in your body, then what are you going to spend money on? It's kind of the most important thing.

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.

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.

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

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.

In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good.

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.