Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Girls, we're fiction editors--we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a… — Stephanie Bond Copy Share Image
A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't.… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
[We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and… — Jon Gordon 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 agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to… — Lydia Davis 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 am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write… — Anais Nin 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For us, launching new systems is about bringing new consumer experiences to the marketplace and we're doing that with Nintendo land and… — Reggie Fils-Aime 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
An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds,… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
In 1925 - 27 the revolution in China was destroyed by the false revolutionary strategy of the Stalinist faction. To this last… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think I've learned over the years, because you'd have to be stupid not to, that when a book publisher gives you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Many of the early greats of sf Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular saw themselves as educators. The… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions… — James Surowiecki 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
Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image