Publishers Quotes · Page 7

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

— David Baldacci

What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but…

— Jeremy Robinson

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess…

— Jay McInerney

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for…

— Paul Kane

Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea,…

— Dean Koontz

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't…

— Dean Koontz

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in…

— Brian Patten

For us, launching new systems is about bringing new consumer experiences to the marketplace and we're doing that with Nintendo land and…

— Reggie Fils-Aime

The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put…

— Sara Sheridan

There's so much published by so many different publishers. Most of the time, I don't have to confront that, but walking into…

— Chris Pavone

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and…

— Salman Rushdie

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as…

— Bergen Evans

I believe that online paid content hasn't worked for general circulation newspapers because consumers weren't ready for it, because the implementation did…

— Robert G. Picard

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't…

— Douglas Coupland

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and…

— Denis Norden

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain…

— Bill Bryson

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

— Jason Epstein

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

— James J. Kilpatrick

I am thrilled to be a member of the Kobalt family. I've never felt so taken care of on every level. As…

— Desmond Child

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

— Dean Koontz

Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because…

— Johnny Rivers

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed…

— Peter Sotos

Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that…

— Stanley Unwin

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other…

— Julian Assange

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your…

— Lord Byron

I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more…

— Stan Lee

“Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!”

— George Gissing

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression…

— Samuel Beckett

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on…

— Alan Parsons

“For publishers are not just employers and financial risk-takers: they are also cultural mediators and arbitrators of quality and taste.”

— John B. Thompson

I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.

— Paul Auster

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

— A. N. Wilson

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

— Anonymous

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is…

— Alan Lightman

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write…

— Anais Nin

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

— Piers Anthony

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up…

— Kiran Desai

The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first…

— Giambattista Bodoni

It is important to send your work to as many publishers as possible. For every one publisher who may show interest in…

— Ravi Subramanian