Larry Winget Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut reaction to that and that gut reaction usually becomes the title of the book.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Titles, Looks

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see it. So I write down the problem as I see it. That is the premise for my book.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, Important

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• I've read over 4,000 books in the last 20+ years. I don't know anybody who's read more books than I have. I read all the time. I read very, very fast. People say, "Larry, it's statistically impossible for you to have read that many books."

  Larry Winget

  Book, Years, People

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Thinking, Impossible

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more about it. I write good books; I write great titles though.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• I think it's more helpful to keep your books sort of a singular focus. Get it said, get it said well, fascinate people with your words and then write another book.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the world to beat a path to our dear. You've got to build a market for your book.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, Waiting

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• The title's more important than the book.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Important, Titles

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• If you're selling information - and I have a lot of friends who write a lot of bestselling books and they're selling information. They don't need to have a picture on the cover at all because they are not important. They're secondary to their information. To me, the information is secondary to me.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, Important

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• It seems to me most people make the mistake of never building a following where they are considered a resource to their fan base so when they do release the book there will be somebody there to buy it.

  Larry Winget

  Mistake, Book, People

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never get past the first chapter. To me, the title better say everything there is to say about the book.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Past, People

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• I have discovered that enemies will buy your books as much as your fans buy your books because they're looking for something new to hate you for.

  Larry Winget

  Hate, Book, Enemy

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• I have people who buy my books just so they can sit them around and show them off because of the titles, especially the Shut Up, Stop Whining and the Grow a Pair. So the title is very, very important.

  Larry Winget

  Book, People, Important

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, Copies

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• I've been very fortunate at having good titles but I just think in terms of titles. I'm doing a workshop now where people write books and they come and I name their books for them. I'm good with titles.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

• I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

  Larry Winget

  Mistake, Book, Thinking

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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