Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put… — Jack McClelland Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
It's really inspiring to know that your publisher is so behind you. It makes you want to put forth your best work. — Eric Wight Copy Share Image
I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does"… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one… — Anita Pallenberg Copy Share Image
[Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant's Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
My agent came to me with a deal from another publisher and I signed a deal and got the advance with no… — Mark McNairy Copy Share Image
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. — John Farrar Copy Share Image
The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major'… — John Scott Copy Share Image
Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out… — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations;… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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