Publisher Quotes

138 quotes by 124 authors

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It… — Alain de Botton
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. — Mitch Albom
People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher. — Roger McNamee
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off… — Raymond Chandler
As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through… — Olivia Goldsmith
Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is… — Richard North Patterson
If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Stanley Unwin
Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first,… — Greg Egan
Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting… — A J Liebling
I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'. — Eric Sykes
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today. — Scott Pelley
Think like a publisher, not a marketer. — David Meerman Scott
No, my publisher has always done the marketing. — Jean M. Auel
Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit… — Michael Bolton
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. — Maxim Gorky
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity… — Bergen Evans
I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our… — John F. Kennedy
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had… — David Eddings
I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book. — Michael Connelly
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of… — Jim Harrison

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