Book Quote by Sara Zarr

I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a translator, which…

— Deborah Smith

My books have been published all over Europe. They read me there, and I want to read them back. I also spend a lot…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the…

— Jonathan Coe

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language…

— Olga Tokarczuk

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books…

— Denis Dutton

“For publishers are not just employers and financial risk-takers: they are also cultural mediators and arbitrators of quality and taste.”

— John B. Thompson

“published in 1991 led to more than 1,800 further titles, with more than 250 million copies in print, translations in more than 30 languages,…

— John Wiley and Sons

Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

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

There has to be a kind of grassroots push, a movement, as it were, against the inherent isolationism of American capitalism as practiced in…

— Aleksandar Hemon