Top 415 Publisher Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
When I'm not writing or working on books as a publisher, I'm doing things that make me happy. One is skiing with my kids and husband. I love sports.
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run.
If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.
I would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X.
I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.
A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.
While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.
For a major publisher like Time Inc. to embrace Bitcoin sends an important message to both its readers and to the broader media community.
I didn't think I would be an exceptional writer, and I thought I might be a useful publisher. I've never regretted it.
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work.
That sort of effort has to come not only from the writer but also from a really innovative publisher like Quirk.
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
It can sometimes feel like the commercials for Activision's 'Call of Duty' series are always on. If the publisher has its way, the games will be, too.
At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.
I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better.
I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.
Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist
People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.
It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come his way have probably been so described by their authors.
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.
It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.
Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.
Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.
There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
When it comes to my songs I'm confident. Back in 1967, I would go to a publisher's office, and tell them they just had to listen to my music.
When you're making a print book in 2012, I actually think the onus is on you - and on your publisher - to make something that's worth buying in its physical edition.
Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.
When I realized that I can invest in my own marketing and do exactly what I think needs to be done - well, then it just feels like, what is the benefit of having a publisher?
Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher!
Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of Grace' to the publisher!
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors.
Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'
I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.
A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'
If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider it. But anything less than that, I'm sure I can do better on my own.
It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.
The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.
I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.
I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their natural habitat, and it's not always pretty.
I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.
Just because we're Knopf doesn't mean we shouldn't sell books as well as any other publisher in the land.
I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.
The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.
Think of it more as publishing instead of marketing.Be authentic as a publisher and create content that helps you connect to everyone else...because they're already connected.
