Publishers Quotes · Page 18

I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don't sense to be discriminatory…

— Adrian Tomine

“Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!”

— George Gissing

'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but…

— David Conyers

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac,…

— William Faulkner

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your…

— Frederick Busch

Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher.

— Gisela Richter

Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't…

— Kirby Larson

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

— Kinky Friedman

Distributed print is arguably our biggest challenge as a machinery supplier, as more publishers find efficiencies in transferring print production to remote…

— Eric Bell

“At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting…

— James Thurber

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

If everybody can author their own story, if media is democratizing because everybody can make a really good-looking website... that's the way…

— Rachel Maddow

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

— Richard Curtis

Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the…

— Trip Hawkins

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

Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the…

— H. L. Mencken

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

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

— Umberto Eco

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than…

— Jess Walter

I am my brain's publisher.

— Philippe Starck

If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

— Stanley Unwin

[We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and…

— Jon Gordon

Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.

— Mathias Dopfner

My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed…

— Laura Hillenbrand

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

— Wilbur Smith