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138 Publisher quotes by 122 unique authors

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was… — Jonathan Coe
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that… — Kara DioGuardi
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop. — Barry Diller
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? — Dorothy Fields
The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New… — Rachel Gibson
I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or… — LeRoy Neiman
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the… — Robert E. Howard
Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle… — Geoffrey Hill
In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which… — S. J. Perelman
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell… — Andy Rooney
To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my… — Tim Ferriss
The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted… — Mark Haddon
It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this… — Alexander Hamilton
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. — Dean Koontz
I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and… — Haruki Murakami
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. — V.S. Naipaul
I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts. — Dan Rather
When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. — Ted Turner
I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and… — Evgeny Morozov
I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing,… — Ashwin Sanghi
It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book. — Colm Toibin
When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time... Of course it's not remotely like seeing a baby for… — Colm Toibin
How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with… — Mark Twain
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals… — George Bernard Shaw

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