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180 Publishers quotes by 158 unique authors

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like… — Laurell K. Hamilton
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in… — Aaron Swartz
Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all of the above.… — Alan Rusbridger
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot. — Kinky Friedman
Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No,… — Jackie Collins
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what… — Rupert Murdoch
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. — Ed McBain
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle… — Joanne Harris
Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is… — Mark Millar
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too. — Mark Millar
Social media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism, one-to-many, to a… — Brian Solis
Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers. — Alma Gluck
Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature,… — Mary MacLane
For us, launching new systems is about bringing new consumer experiences to the marketplace and we're doing that with Nintendo land and third-party publishers are… — Reggie Fils-Aime
When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and… — Janet Morris
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version… — Laura Hillenbrand
There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then… — Dan DeCarlo
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all… — William Faulkner
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. — John Farrar
Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies. — Jack Canfield
I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help. — A. N. Wilson
You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author… — Douglas Coupland
Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be… — Frederick Busch

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