Bigs Quote by Doris Lessing

It's pretty interesting how it all started out. After The Voice, I got introduced to some of my publishing people. We were out in…

— Curtis Grimes

I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs. I did…

— Simon Sinek

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

— Anne Bernays

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional…

— Ian Rankin

My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors…

— Ricky Schroder

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in 'Sports Illustrated.' I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got…

— Steve Rushin

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

— Tanith Lee

I never worked directly in book publishing, but New York media is adjacent.

— Cord Jefferson

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

— Jean M. Auel

I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn't move to the larger presses until they knew…

— Lydia Davis

It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break…

— Jim C. Hines

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