The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out… — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I think I've learned over the years, because you'd have to be stupid not to, that when a book publisher gives you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
And so with Hemingway's writing, he famously wrote to one of his publishers - he said, you don't need a high school… — Lesley M. M. Blume Copy Share Image
Many of the early greats of sf Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular saw themselves as educators. The… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers… — Carson Ellis Copy Share Image
Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I actually produced other people's vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits.… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of books in this world. One improves the mind, the other the bank balance. Sometimes they're the same… — Paula Gosling Copy Share Image
Agents are deal makers, and they're really, really good at making deals. But they're also exceptionally helpful after the deal is made… — John Romaniello Copy Share Image
Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless… — Gil Kane Copy Share Image
If everybody can author their own story, if media is democratizing because everybody can make a really good-looking website... that's the way… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
We're used to our users sharing a lot of stories with their friends. They are our chief ambassadors. Publishers are obviously an… — Alexander Klopping Copy Share Image
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks is really a litmus test for those people who walk the talk in the media. How much will they really follow… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish… — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
I've published several virtually invisible novels and several dozen even more invisible short stories over the years, all of which give me… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
The States has more publishers and a wider range of aesthetics but so much more competition - the amount of writers vying… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you… — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
