A Quote by Doris Lessing

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing
English - Novelist
October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.

Elliot Ackerman

Nothing succeeds like success.

Alexandre Dumas

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Margaret Drabble

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

Nothing succeeds like reports of success.

Sue Sanders

If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.

John Barry

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.

Karen Joy Fowler

The highlight of my career was my first sale, to F&SF, in 1989. Nothing yet has topped that moment. I was weeping in joy and relief. Publishing one story was all that I ever wanted, or expected. Everything since then - award nominations, getting into best-of anthologies, meeting my idols at conventions, drinking with my idols at conventions - has been wonderful, but it's all gravy.

Daryl Gregory

I went to drama school so I had quite a regimented classical training, regimented process of analyzing a script. I'll go through the whole script and highlight everything my character says about me, and in another color I'll highlight what other characters say about me, and I'll highlight all the things I say about other characters.

Ncuti Gatwa

The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written . . . the book is merely a symbol of the writing. In writing the book, I am living. I am growing. I am tapping myself. I am changing. The process is the product.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Maya Angelou

Many writers hate the shilling process, and I understand that. However, it's really the only thing about the publication process you can somewhat control. You can't affect reviews. But you can try to find your book an audience. One of the problems with the book publishing industry is that their publicity efforts tend to be spent on people who already read, and know how to discover, literary fiction.

Hanya Yanagihara

Nothing succeeds so well as success.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

Michael Korda

The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo

Victoria Chang

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

Dave Kellett

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