Books Quote by Donald E. Westlake

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled…

— Irwin Shaw

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell…

— Eric Brown

There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on…

— Zoe Saldana

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

— Aleksandar Hemon

The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people…

— James Daly

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the…

— Anonymous

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

— Anonymous

In the long run magazines can't be a convenience play - the Web has stolen that. So magazines have to be high fidelity -…

— Kevin Maney

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

— Graydon Carter

So much magazine writing is playing to an empty room. You work like a plow horse, your words get printed on a half-million or…

— Jonathan Miles

Sooner or later, all magazines end up in the toilet.

— Maurizio Cattelan

Magazines can be kind of brutal, and independent magazines especially are really hard, and it takes work for it to feel like its actually…

— Alex Wagner