Best Publisher Words
138 Publisher quotes by 122 unique authors
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.
— Jasper Fforde
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I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection letter". This is…
— James Dashner
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Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition…
— Machado de Assis
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The whole thing about bullying is: yes, the culture has to change. Yes, teens have the power to change it. It’s not going to happen…
— Susane Colasanti
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The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
— Paul Johnson
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My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.
— Julian Assange
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There are a lot of global decisions that you can make as a co-publisher, and only publishers can make those kind of decisions. At the…
— Jim Lee
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As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.
— Jason Calacanis
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I thought it was a classic David and Goliath story, and I was fully onboard Team WikiLeaks. I was very pro the leaks, barring the…
— Alex Gibney
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When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.
— Anita Elberse
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I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour,…
— Barry Eisler
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What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
— Russell Smith
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Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do a couple of…
— John Searles
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Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections…
— Jami Attenberg
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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
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I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of that comes from…
— Tim O'Reilly
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My husband, a.k.a. Swede, and I both come from athletic backgrounds, so once we identified the goal - get book published - we attacked it.…
— Kresley Cole
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Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support of a large…
— Jennifer Armintrout
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My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the…
— Rick Moody
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
— Orhan Pamuk
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This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top…
— Robert Shea
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You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.
— Richard Curtis
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking…
— Patrick White
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I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised…
— Marc Davis
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