Book Quote by Dave Eggers

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect I'll have…

— Richard Meltzer

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

— Hilary Liftin

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over…

— Anita Diament

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

I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be…

— Sarah Dessen

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

— John Hodgman

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM,…

— Susie Bright

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me…

— Fred Saberhagen

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address…

— Kiran Desai