Amazon Quote by Richard Flanagan Download Open image “Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.” — Richard Flanagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amazon Business Companies Like Terrifying Writer Writing
To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of consciousness, and… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy. — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them. — Aneel Bhusri Copy Share Image
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Amazon is increasingly dominating online commerce. People are starting their searches there, which of course threatens Google because it takes away some of the… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“The effect of Amazon’s monopsony in the book business is to constantly force authors and publishers to work for less money. In Bork’s view,… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are… — Russell Grandinetti Copy Share
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Within white Australia, there was a growing movement for what was known as reconciliation - a movement that peaked with millions marching in 2000… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Murder and hate are as deeply buried in the human heart as love, perhaps more so, and in truth they're rather entwined, and if… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“If Amazon’s dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.” — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“There was little science to Amazon’s earliest distribution methods. The company held no inventory itself at first. When a customer bought a book, Amazon… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about Amazon's culture; I've never worked there. — Parker Conrad Copy Share Image
“A responsible woman doesn’t see opportunities and needs and look the other way pretending not to see them rather she gets to work to… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“Jeff Bezos is famous for his “2 Pizza Rule” at Amazon: no meeting is to take place if the number of participants is too… — David L Rogers Copy Share Image
“The first week after the official launch, they took $12,000 in orders and shipped $846 worth of books, according to Eric Dillon, one of… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“ Programs has a temporary results leading to nothingness, and the Gospel the brings the result of Eternal life.” — Tommie Scott Copy Share Image
The digital revolution is forever. They put importance on that option as well. With Amazon, you're getting the best of both worlds, with a… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams -… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
“Sure we do," said Theo, swatting at a branch. "We get to the spring, Alia gets cured. We argue over the best choice for… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Alternative services would mean that there would be services available to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Skype, etc., and they would be run… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
