“To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.”

“So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!”

“It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.”

“All these books are published in Heaven.”

“It's a funny thing, really, me publishing a book.... I've had so many people tell me it was stupid or impossible or that I wouldn't never rise to such an occasion, but then -laughs- here I am: A Published Author.”

“From Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story, re: the travel book boom of the 1970sSurprisingly, none of the new developments in travel publishing came from established companies. The changes in the air seemed to completely bypass them and when they did wake up to the upsurge in growth it was too late -- they'd been overtaken. Much the same happened a decade later with computer books. Just as the travel book explosion was led by travelers who got into publishing rather than publishers getting into travel, so the computer book explosion was led by computer geeks getting into publishing. The regular publishers never saw it coming.”