Patrick deWitt Quotes

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting for entirely new forms of publishing to develop.

I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely in the middle of a revolution that will determine how people find, read, and experience stories.

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

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures apply more and more to books, how do you keep a book you wrote 28 years ago selling well year on year? Because it really is getting harder.

People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; they're just kind of reinventing themselves.'

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

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

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

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.

There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.