Long Quote by Saul David

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to…

— Neil Gaiman

I don't think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people think they…

— Tananarive Due

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

— Mark Millar

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

— Lois Lowry

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

— Emma Donoghue

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're

— Bill Murray

In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before I made…

— Lucia Puenzo

had two smaller scripts that I had written with full black casts. And people loved the scripts, but nobody would fund them. Those roles…

— Joe Robert Cole

I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision…

— J. J. Abrams

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came…

— Keanu Reeves

An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It…

— Jack Kirby