I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Third-party publishers, like everyone, face increasing risks associated with creating games, and you have to target your resources to the right places… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty… — Stephenie Meyer 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
Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
And so with Hemingway's writing, he famously wrote to one of his publishers - he said, you don't need a high school… — Lesley M. M. Blume Copy Share Image
Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
You have to go into rehab after doing a David Walliams book. David is such an important man; publishers rate him very,… — Tony Ross Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher. — Gisela Richter Copy Share Image
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. — Donald E. Westlake 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
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot. — Kinky Friedman 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
“Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!” — George Gissing 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
In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed… — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves. — Jason Epstein 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
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