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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
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
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
For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book. — David Dunn
Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers. — Thomas M. Disch
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
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
The walls are the publishers of the poor. — Eduardo Galeano
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
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. — Jackie Collins
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. — Cyril Connolly
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things. — Umberto Eco
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
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
I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. — Christopher Hitchens
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
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. — John Lennon
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
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
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor. — A J Liebling
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
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
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. — Wilbur Smith
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
Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name. — Gerard Way

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