Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars. — Tony Ross Copy Share Image
Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero. — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they… — Robert Barr Copy Share Image
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers. — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that… — Stanley Unwin Copy Share Image
But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don't sense to be discriminatory… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting… — Dick Costolo Copy Share Image
There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
In the war time many of the publishing houses were privately owned, a single publisher or a publisher and a few associates… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we… — Eubie Blake Copy Share Image
Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book,… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
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