“People don't know they want to become an author until they meet me.” — Lucas J. Robak Copy Share Image
Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers. — Horace Copy Share Image
I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website. — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit… — Beck Copy Share Image
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
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 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
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
My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a… — Agnes Repplier 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
"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
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
Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we… — Eubie Blake Copy Share Image
In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
In the war time many of the publishing houses were privately owned, a single publisher or a publisher and a few associates… — James Salter Copy Share Image
There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too. — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero. — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars. — Tony Ross Copy Share Image
I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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