The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money. — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title.… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
That sort of effort has to come not only from the writer but also from a really innovative publisher like Quirk. — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
We had tried to get a couple books that were written about Ray Kroc, and one of the books, we called the… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes… — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
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You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn't move to the larger presses until… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you.… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value. — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
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