Blockbusters Quote by John Updike Download Open image “Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blockbusters Looking Loves Publishers World
Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“Anyone wishing to buy the film rights for a rather large sum can contact my publisher and anyone wishing to put me in the… — James Berryman Copy Share Image
I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish,… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy. — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Amazon has massively - and I'm trying not to use this particular word, but I can't not use it here - disrupted the business… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug it as it were to one side does self-consciousness dissolve and sleep with its healing, brilliantly detailed fictions pour in upon the jittery spirit. Falling asleep is a study in trust. Likewise, religion tries to put… — John Updike Copy Share
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. 'One for you, one for me,' is what they say. — Rhys Wakefield Copy Share Image
I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same… — Alexander Walker Copy Share Image
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so. — Anita Elberse Copy Share Image
My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' trilogy; she likes big blockbusters. She loved that I… — Alice Braga Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
It is important that alongside the blockbusters there are stories that can inspire and audiences can experience together in the cinema. — Justin Chadwick Copy Share Image
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