Accommodate Quote by Bill Watterson

I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always…

— Kevin Sessums

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to…

— Bill Watterson

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over…

— Anita Diament

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off…

— Jonathan Coe

Getting published was like God stamping you 'acceptable,' and all of a sudden you can start writing for other places.

— Steven Rinella

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared…

— Tanith Lee

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all…

— Jerry Spinelli

All the other editors at DC never gave me a moment's time. They would take the thing and give me a check and say,…

— John Romita, Sr

Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

— Evan Hunter

I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it…

— Michael Ignatieff

When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to…

— Paolo Nutini

Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a…

— Ron Shock