By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in… — Brian Patten Copy Share Image
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too. — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used… — Otis Blackwell Copy Share Image
Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
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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
While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife,… — Jim Bouton Copy Share Image
[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized… — Warren Murphy Copy Share Image
Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits.… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
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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
Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image