Publishers Quotes · Page 20

The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself,…

— Andy Rooney

I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.

— John Boyne

Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that…

— Stanley Unwin

Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a…

— Cassandra Clare

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

I like to have projects that belong completely to me. If done right, it can also pay better. But the majority of…

— Jeremy Robinson

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as…

— Laura Hillenbrand

There are a lot of global decisions that you can make as a co-publisher, and only publishers can make those kind of…

— Jim Lee

anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press…

— Dora Russell

[With "Summer Sisters" the publisher] sent me on a big book tour. And it was the most wonderful professional experience of my…

— Judy Blume

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

— Jason Epstein

Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to…

— Seth Godin

The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting…

— Dick Costolo

Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received…

— Liza Campbell

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

I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I…

— Karen Thompson Walker

For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple…

— Geoffrey Wheatcroft

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

I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't…

— Tony Kushner

My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which…

— Belle Boyd

An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying…

— Jack Kirby

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

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

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