I am asked to submit a 2-3 page synopsis to my publisher ahead of time, so by the time I begin writing,… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes… — C. S. Forester 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
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
I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn't move to the larger presses until… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you.… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within… — Bentley Little 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 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
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
Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to… — Olivia Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while… — Eric Bell 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
The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no… — James Frey Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
More and more readers are finding important and interesting content through platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and now Medium rather than traditional publishers. — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
“But see, publishers don’t actually know what readers want. They know what distributors want. Joe and Jane Smith? No clue. Barnes &… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. They'll be the richest, the… — Pete Cashmore Copy Share Image
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city,… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
“All my life, used the best lotions, finest soaps, nicest oils, and fanciest perfumes to keep my skin nice, only to find… — Liz Faublas-Wallace Copy Share Image
"Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have… — Maxwell Perkins 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
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
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36… — Arianna Huffington 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
I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
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