Book Marketing Quotes

You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself. ~ John Kremer

One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books. ~ Heather Hart

Writing is about you. Publishing is about the book. Marketing is about the reader. ~ Joanna Penn

Marketing isn't sleazy car salesman tactics.
Marketing isn't tricking people into buying.
Marketing isn't unethical.
Marketing isn't intrusive self-promotion.
Marketing is two things: (1) creating lasting connections with people, through (2) a focus on being relentlessly helpful. ~ Tim Grahl

Marketing starts even before our books are published. ~ Heather Hart

Are you making noise with your book marketing or are you creating a symphony? ~ Judith Briles

For me, there is no separation. Writing is the center… But it's all critical. ~ Christina Katz

The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Book marketing should be a planned process, an art if you will. ~ Heather Hart

Good marketing is reminding your readers regularly about all the valuable things you want to give them out of your own experience, including your book, in a new and genuine way. ~ Bethany Atazadeh

Never use the phrase: 'buy my book' - ever. ~ Heather Hart

It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes. ~ David Bergen

There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success. ~ M.J. Rose

We are on the cusp of a marketing revolution. And it's being led by YOU. ~ Mark Schaefer

You don't stop the watch when you are afraid of getting old, so don't cut off advertising when you want to save money."
~Madi Preda ~ Madi Preda

You can write the most wonderful book in the world. But if people don't know about your book they won't know to buy it. ~ Madi Preda

Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with. ~ Heather Hart

If your author platform is not well built, you may lose readers to an inferior product that was simply easier to find because its platform was superior to yours. ~ Carole Jelen

The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late. ~ Seth Godin

Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what have you done but nobody else does."
~Madi Preda ~ Madi Preda

I firmly believe that writers must take full accountability for their careers. It's a business, and part of business is marketing. You wouldn't slap an OPEN sign on the window of your new barber shop, go home, and wait for the money to start rolling in. ~ Alistair Cross

There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience. ~ John Stuart Mill

People can't read a book if they don't know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published. ~ Jo Linsdell

It's never too early to start marketing your book. ~ Heather Hart

Simply talking about your book is the biggest, easiest, most often over-looked, cheapest marketing tool. ~ Bethany Atazadeh

16 marketing vehicles are: 1. Social media marketing 2. Blog marketing 3. Article marketing 4. Lecture marketing 5. Webinar marketing 6. Video marketing 7. Presentation marketing 8. Podcast marketing 9. Workshop marketing 10. Book marketing 11. Drip marketing 12. Referral marketing ~ Jay Niblick

Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers. ~ Joanne Kraft

The truth is, you could write a masterpiece, but if you're hiding it under a rock, no one will ever know. ~ Bethany Atazadeh

My theory is that every little bit has the potential to help. We just have to learn where to focus our limited time and energy, because we obviously can't do it all. ~ Jody Hedlund

EAN codes ordinarily have the first three digits (the prefix) identifying the country of manufacture, but that doesn't make sense for books. The industry committee's clever solution was to invent two new imaginary countries -- called Bookland 1 and Bookland 2 -- with corresponding prefixes of 978 and 979." (29) ~ Bruce T. Batchelor

Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful. ~ Heather Hart

Don't be an expert, be a filter. ~ Penny C. Sansevieri

Oh, God. He's a sex whisperer." Gracie Gable ~ Mackenzie Crowne

You might think the word "homemade" is just a word we use as a marketing ploy. But what you don't realize is that the staff sleeps here at night. If your tablecloth is wrinkled, that's why. ~ Scott Adams

Years ago in 1959 when Dellinger was already an editor on Liberation (then an anarchist-pacifist magazine, of worthy but not very readable articles in more or less vegetarian prose) Mailer had submitted a piece, after some solicitation, on the contrast between real obscenity in advertising, and alleged obscenity in four-letter words. The piece was no irreplaceable work of prose, and in fact was eventually inserted quietly into his book, Advertisements for Myself, but it created difficulty for the editorial board at Liberation, since there was a four-letter word he had used to make his point, the palpable four-letter word which signifies a woman's most definitive organ: these editorial anarchists were decorous; they were ready to overthrow society and replace it with a communion of pacifistic men free of all laws, but they were not ready to print cunt. ~ Norman Mailer

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and they were really special. They were kind of the quintessential, mild for the most part, kind of southern man, kind of the true heart of what it meant to be a Kiwi kind of farmer; very kind of outdoor man living off the land. That kind of thing, you don't see so much anymore these days with everyone being metrosexual and lattes and laptops. ~ Rhys Darby

Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read. ~ Peter Rosegger

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside. ~ Judy Blume

One night, after they had made love, Pelletier got up naked and went looking among his books for a novel by Archimboldi. After hesitating for a moment he decided on The leather mask, thinking that with some luck Vanessa might read it as a horror novel, might be attracted by the sinister side of the book. She was surprised at first by the gift, then touched, since she was used to her clients giving her clothes or shoes or lingerie. Really, she was very happy with it, especially when Pelletier explained who Archimboldi was and the role the German writer played in his life.
"It's as if you were giving me a part of you", said Vanessa.
The remark left Pelletier a bit confused, since in a way it was perfectly true, Archimboldi was by now a part of him, the author belonged to him insofar as Pelletier had, a long with few others, instituted a new reading of the German, a reading that would endure, a reading as ambitious as Archimboldi's writing, and this reading would keep pace with Archimboldi's writing for a long time, until the reading was exhausted or until Archimboldi's writing - the capacity of Archimboldian oeuvre to spark emotions and revelations - was exhausted (but he didn't believe that would happen), though in another way it wasn't true, because sometimes, especially since he and Espinoza had given up their trips to London and stopped seeing Liz Norton, Archimboldi's work, his novels and stories, that is, seemed completely foreign, a shapeless and mysterious ver ~ Roberto Bolano

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at. ~ Janice Dickinson

You're a writer," she said. "You get to live someone else's life every time you write a book. But I'm stuck with mine. It's lonely. ~ Ava Sinclair

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book. ~ Andrew Sean Greer

Search is the means through which we navigate the Web. If your business is not visible in search it is difficult for it to be found by your customers. Search, above all else, is marketing, and it is undergoing a massive change. ~ David Amerland

A book may outlive its author, and it moves too, and it too can be said to change - but not in the manner of the telling. It changes in the manner of the reading. As many commentators have remarked, works of literature are recreated by each generation of readers, who make them new by finding fresh meanings in them. The printed text of a book is thus like a musical score, which is not itself music, but becomes music when played by musicians, or "interpreted" by them, as we say. The act of reading a text is like playing music and listening to it at the same time, and the reader becomes its own interpreter. ~ Margaret Atwood

It is always good – is it not? – when all that hard work of writing pages is turned into a solid book which will last for generations. You can be proud of that. ~ Ann Swinfen

When reading a book, one hopes it doesn't turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the labor produces fruit. But with painfully bad writing, all one can do is grab a hatchet, slice off its head, and bury it. ~ Chila Woychik

The worth of a book is infinite. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level. ~ Tom Glazer

... she was so exhausted and tired, so overwhelmed, that she needed a Red Bull, to calm down and fall asleep. ~ Haidji

In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wonder they chose to do so, many who dared paid with their heads ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects
with their Christianity latent. ~ C.S. Lewis

She looked so beautiful, with every smile of hers, I was falling for her. She had the perfect set of teeth for the perfect face to make up that perfect smile. ~ Pritam Banikk

It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance and history, and to establish the cultural meaning of the book, part and whole. ~ Oliver Harris

It might have been brief, but so much of a kiss - a first kiss especially - is the moment before your lips touch, and before your eyes close, when you're filled with the sight of each other, and with the compulsion, the pull, and it's like...it's like...finding a book inside another book. A small treasure of a book hidden inside a big common one - like...spells printed on dragonfly wings, discovered tucked inside a cookery book, right between the recipes for cabbages and corn. That's what a kiss is like, he thought, no matter how brief: It's a tiny, magical story, and a miraculous interruption of the mundane. ~ Laini Taylor

Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe. ~ Pete Dexter

Now that it's too late, now that I lie here dying on this bloodstained sand, I finally get it.

I understand, now.

I understand. I know what he meant. My father told me that to know
the enemy is half the battle. I know you, now. That's right.

It's you.

All of you who sit in comfort and watch me die, who see the twitch of
my bowels through my own eyes: You are my enemy.

Corpses lie scattered around me, gleanings left in a wheat field by a careless reaper. Berne's body cools beneath the bend of my back, and I can't feel him anymore. The sky darkens over my head - but no, I think that's my eyes; Pallas' light seems to have faded.

Every drop of the blood that soaks into this sand stains my hands and the hands of the monsters that put me here.

That's you, again.

It's your money that supports me, and everyone like me; it's your lust that we serve.

You could thumb your emergency cut-off, turn your eyes from the screen, walk out of the theatre, close the book . . .

But you don't.

You are my accomplice, and my destroyer.

My nemesis.

My insatiable blood-crazed god.

Ah, ahhh, Christ . . . it hurts. ~ Matthew Woodring Stover

Jahrling sat down at his desk and sighed. There was a landfill of papers on his desk, mostly about smallpox, and it was discouraging. On top of the heap sat a large red book with silver ~ Richard Preston

No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhanced by their scarcity. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves. In their eyes the merit of an object which is in any degree either useful or beautiful is greatly enhanced by its scarcity, or by the great labour which it requires to collect any considerable quantity of it, a labour which nobody can afford to pay but themselves.

Book I, Chapter 11 - Rent of Land, part II ~ Adam Smith

Relationships are like a book, in that they are for learning. ~ Marshall Sylver

Negative experiences repeat as long as they remain useful to you. ~ Tawny Lara

It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books. ~ Jennifer Weiner

The really cool thing about when you're playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like. ~ Josh McDermitt

The right books are like crowbars for our imaginations. When we find ourselves stuck at some place in life, the right book can pry open our inner idea banks. You know those moments: life has become so routine you could do it in your sleep-in fact, you wish you could. You need a change, but you're not sure if it calls for a career switch, a life overhaul, or just a new hairstyle.
During these seasons, the right book challenges you to think differently, to see life in a new light, to bring resolution to a problem, or make a life-changing decision.
Books can propel you out of life's occasional ruts. Through their mind-expanding, heart swelling, pulse-quickening words and ideas, books become like WD-40 for our brains ~ Pat Williams

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person. ~ Jean Rhys

You only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in the spirit of a duel, so you can both wound and be wounded, so you are willing to argue, to overcome and be overcome, and grow richer by what you have learned, not only in the book, but in life, or by being able to make something of your work. ~ Sandor Marai

!!!!Any BOOK Accepted as Cash!!!! ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get. ~ Donald Miller

All I could think about was the heat of his soft lips, the way they fitted so wonderfully as I was coaxing him to open them some more, just enough to let my tongue slip in and taste him. I needed a taste, needed to complete this fantasy of mine. ~ Stephanie Witter

There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally ... We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology. ~ Carly Fiorina

This, reader, is an honest book ... I want to appear in my simple, natural and everyday dress, without strain or artifice; for it is myself that I portray ~ Michel De Montaigne

I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters ... yet people are trying to pull me down. ~ Nick Simmons

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! ~ Erin Duffy

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go. ~ Nick Hornby

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Read my book and you shall know thee ~ Oscar Sanders

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected. ~ Cassandra Clare

Read. The book is still the greatest manmade machine of all - not the car, not the TV, not the smartphone. ~ Ken Burns