You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“The endorsements on books aren’t entirely impartial. Unbeknownst to the average reader, blurbs are more often than not from the writer’s best… — Rachel Donadio Copy Share Image
“Once in every few publishing seasons there is an Event. For no apparent reason, the great heart of the Public gives a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Stop thinking 'outside the box' and look what is actually in the box first. You jump around from marketing gimmick to marketing… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully… — Alexander Osterwalder 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
Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that were desperately trying to assimilate into America.… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I sometimes talk to people who think I got published because I was an editor, or because I was an agent, and… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The name Bei Dao was actually given to me with the help of friends. When we were publishing our unofficial magazine, Today,… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
My idea of that[idea of career] is constantly changing. I mostly just throw it out to the universe and I can't really… — J Tillman 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
My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books,… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
As somebody who's kind of a technophile, I'm interested in how traditional and digital publishing connect. Maybe ten years ago they were… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
It's true that in Romanian I feel more relaxed, as if I'm wearing slippers...but I came to this decision primarily for other… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image