I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It is important to send your work to as many publishers as possible. For every one publisher who may show interest in… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first… — Giambattista Bodoni Copy Share Image
What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
For us, launching new systems is about bringing new consumer experiences to the marketplace and we're doing that with Nintendo land and… — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
There's so much published by so many different publishers. Most of the time, I don't have to confront that, but walking into… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax.… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations;… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more… — Pete Cashmore Copy Share Image
So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
“All my life, used the best lotions, finest soaps, nicest oils, and fanciest perfumes to keep my skin nice, only to find… — Liz Faublas-Wallace Copy Share Image
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city,… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. — John Farrar Copy Share Image
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
More and more readers are finding important and interesting content through platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and now Medium rather than traditional publishers. — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no… — James Frey Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
When new pages are sent to editors and see rejection, we should ask for the reasons. We must study the reasons for… — Jean Giraud Copy Share Image
My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Though the blame cannot be placed entirely on publishers, I do think a more diverse pool of editors would go a long… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
When I joined Time Inc., one of the things that was important to me was ensuring that our content is where consumers… — Laura Lang Copy Share Image
To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which,… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
I think it is serious to have good sales. As I learned belatedly, the more you sell, the more publishers pay attention… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
There's a reason publishers don't build on top of social platforms: publishers are an independent lot, and they naturally understand the value… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put… — Jack McClelland Copy Share Image
To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
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