Best Publishers Words
180 Publishers quotes by 158 unique authors
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Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last…
— Dan DeCarlo
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Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why…
— Judith Guest
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Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.
— David Dunn
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Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.
— Thomas M. Disch
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Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use,…
— Eben Moglen
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What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population…
— Maxwell Perkins
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The walls are the publishers of the poor.
— Eduardo Galeano
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I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the…
— Matt Groening
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Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
— Jackie Collins
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
— Cyril Connolly
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
— Umberto Eco
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without…
— C S Forester
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.
— Christopher Hitchens
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This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and…
— Paul Kane
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Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
— John Lennon
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According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his…
— Jay Leno
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When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look…
— Doris Lessing
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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
— A J Liebling
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Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with…
— Salman Rushdie
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I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way…
— Marjane Satrapi
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My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
— Wilbur Smith
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Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks…
— James Surowiecki
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Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.
— Gerard Way
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