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180 Publishers quotes by 158 unique authors

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money… — Ian Rankin
I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I… — Ali Smith
And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few… — Peter Sotos
If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of.… — Peter Sotos
That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the… — Walter Jon Williams
I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're… — Lois Lowry
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. — Louise Brown
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and… — Tanith Lee
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities… — Nicholson Baker
I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers. — Marco Arment
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. — David Baldacci
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of… — Kiran Desai
I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one,… — Lydia Davis
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year… — Alan Davies
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre. — Emma Donoghue
Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company. — Nick Denton
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money. — Buchi Emecheta
Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to… — Charles Frazier
The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the… — Toni Morrison
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money. — Aleksandar Hemon
People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if… — Amanda Hocking
My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not… — Elizabeth Kostova
Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really… — Gil Kane
My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am… — Sara Zarr
As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman… — P. C. Cast

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