When new pages are sent to editors and see rejection, we should ask for the reasons. We must study the reasons for… — Jean Giraud 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
Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain,… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
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
As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher… — Olivia Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I am asked to submit a 2-3 page synopsis to my publisher ahead of time, so by the time I begin writing,… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Many persons erroneously suppose that an author has always on hand an unlimited number of her own books; or that the publisher… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote… — Ali Smith 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
If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts? — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
Companies with aspirations to be larger publishers - Kabam, Kixeye, even Zynga - are moving aggressively off the Facebook platform to mobile… — Mitch Lasky 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
The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The… — Joseph Pulitzer 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 describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company. — Nick Denton 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
Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these… — Leila Fadel Copy Share Image
Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy. — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls)… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
