Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions. — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently. — Mathias Dopfner Copy Share Image
No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
“Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it” — John Lennon Copy Share Image
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or… — Dan DeCarlo 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
When I'm not writing or working on books as a publisher, I'm doing things that make me happy. One is skiing with… — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel… — Rigoberto Gonzalez 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
We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that… — John Green Copy Share Image
That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before -… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
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
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who… — Cynthia Ozick 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
Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book,… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I was interested in creating things that I could be proud of and so, you know, I was interested in being an… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible,… — Diablo Cody 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
Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller. — John Updike Copy Share Image
For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book. — David Dunn Copy Share Image
Artists deserve more than a check cut in half eight times by publishers. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
“People don't know they want to become an author until they meet me.” — Lucas J. Robak Copy Share Image
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter. — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
