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
I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been… — Paul Auster 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
You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a… — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value. — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish… — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but… — Jeremy Robinson Copy Share Image
In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money. — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter. — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
