Holly Black Quotes

People do write books.

What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.

Readers are always surprised to learn that authors have little or no input regarding the cover art for their books.

There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.

The one thing which we were left almost wholly without, during the war, was literature. Nobody thought of importing books through the blockade, to any adequate extent, and the facilities for publishing them, even if we had had authors to write them, were very poor indeed.

I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

Everybody writes a book too many.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

I love my books.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

I've never met any artist who illustrated one of my books, although I've corresponded briefly with one. I have always been impressed by the technical expertise involved in the covers, even if sometimes puzzled by the subject matter.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

Not too many people know who the editor is.