The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website. — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology.… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I believe that online paid content hasn't worked for general circulation newspapers because consumers weren't ready for it, because the implementation did… — Robert G. Picard Copy Share Image
You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and… — Denis Norden Copy Share Image
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit… — Beck Copy Share Image
If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Stanley Unwin Copy Share Image
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Think of it more as publishing instead of marketing.Be authentic as a publisher and create content that helps you connect to everyone… — Mitch Joel Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred… — Alan Davies Copy Share Image
My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers'… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers. — Erik Qualman Copy Share Image
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
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