Appeals Quote by Rebekah Brooks

The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want -…

— Gloria Steinem

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

— Emma Donoghue

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor…

— Jim Goad

Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one…

— Emma Donoghue

“Newspapers are owned and published by rich men. Rich men all belong to the same club. Sure, there’s competition—hard tough competition for circulation, for…

— Raymond Chandler

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

— Jill Abramson

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go…

— Marc Andreessen

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

— Rupert Murdoch

I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it…

— Natalie Portman

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

— John Jakes

If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them cold pitches…

— Ann Friedman

I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.

— Simon Winchester