Any Quote by Jasper Fforde

My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish…

— Colm Toibin

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 always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.

— Colson Whitehead

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

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've had many of my books optioned.

— Robert J. Sawyer

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to…

— Colson Whitehead

I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from the rejection…

— Micah Perks

Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print…

— Bob Colacello

Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and…

— Robert Greene

I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and you turn…

— Craig Finn

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are…

— Lord Chesterfield