Publisher Quotes
138 quotes by 124 authors
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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
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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
— Mitch Albom
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People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.
— Roger McNamee
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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
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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
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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
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If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.
— Stanley Unwin
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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
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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
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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
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In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
— Scott Pelley
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Think like a publisher, not a marketer.
— David Meerman Scott
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No, my publisher has always done the marketing.
— Jean M. Auel
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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
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
— Maxim Gorky
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Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity…
— Bergen Evans
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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
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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
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I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.
— Michael Connelly
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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
Who Wrote These Publisher Quotes
124 authors contributed a total of 138 Publisher Quotes, led by these top contributors: