As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers… — George Bernard Shaw 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
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 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
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. — John Farrar 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
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an… — Lee Child 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
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more… — Pete Cashmore Copy Share Image
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations;… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax.… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
We're in the media business today. We're in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that's… — Otis Chandler Copy Share Image
There are a lot of global decisions that you can make as a co-publisher, and only publishers can make those kind of… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars… — Helen Garner 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
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. — Anthony Burgess 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
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. — Stephen Kinzer 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
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
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Third-party publishers, like everyone, face increasing risks associated with creating games, and you have to target your resources to the right places… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company. — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell. — Paul Johnson 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
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