Bats Quote by Steven Amsterdam Download Open image “Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.” — Steven Amsterdam ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bats Huge
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy. — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
It's really inspiring to know that your publisher is so behind you. It makes you want to put forth your best work. — Eric Wight Copy Share Image
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn't move to the larger presses until they knew… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
There's a reason that so much good material is coming down to the small presses: it's difficult to turn a profit, all things considered.… — Andrew Latimer Copy Share Image
I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I… — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and got some… — Ken Griffey, Jr Copy Share Image
A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is… — Stan Musial Copy Share Image
Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become. — Dick Stuart Copy Share Image
The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball. — Norm Cash Copy Share Image
(At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you. — Marv Levy Copy Share Image
