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
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
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 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
I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder… — Rick Moody 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
I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value. — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs.… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
[We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as… — Laura Hillenbrand 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
A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't.… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
“Girls, we're fiction editors--we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a… — Stephanie Bond 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 describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
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 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
Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
My British publisher has this independent press. It's pretty small; they actually won last year. And she's got this great energy, and… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Distributed print is arguably our biggest challenge as a machinery supplier, as more publishers find efficiencies in transferring print production to remote… — Eric Bell Copy Share Image
The cliché I tried to avoid was I hated "teenage sidekicks." I always figured if I were a superhero, there's no way… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary… — Oscar Wilde 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
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