107 Publisher Quotes for You to Enjoy

If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure of Lehman Brothers. Peter Mayer

Work Failure You Writing Words Revolution Publish Other Books Characters Be Real Brothers About Seems He Written French Well Reader French Revolution Because Context Real In Other Words Whether Serious Publisher

Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up with the reader, should benefit from a healthy book trade. Philip Pullman

Book Ending Healthy Benefit Everyone Libraries Distributor Ecology Reader Trade Up Author Should Including Publisher Starting

The royalty any author gets is dependent on his track record and marketability and often on the price of his book, too. The higher you price a book, the more comfortable your publisher will be in paying you a higher royalty. Ravi Subramanian

One shouldn't say yes in desperation to the first publisher who approaches. New authors especially should wait and weigh their deal and agree only when they are sure that they have landed themselves a good offer. Ravi Subramanian

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher. Richard Curtis

You Remember Addition Running Also Am Literary Agency Publisher

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen. Robert E. Howard

Age Seen Poet Magazine Having Only Writer Never Had Ideas Editor Began Procedure Fifteen Working Less Profession Chosen Publisher

The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative. Robert Scheer

You Conservative Bit Tell Would About He Know Editorial Editors Least Were Wants Them Page Nick Publisher Honest

This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher. Robert Shea

Club Top Magazine Seem Rise Small Diversion Purposes Ideals Does Very Offices Organizations Whole Bridge Serious Publisher Phenomenon

I assumed 'Freak the Mighty' was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has. Rodman Philbrick

Book Assumed Too Indeed Find Freak Writer Never Weird Expected Influence Mighty Certainly Publisher Profound Career

I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned savings - say, some two-three lakhs - and getting your book printed. It's not published; it's printed! Ruskin Bond

Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since I never could figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up, I'm hedging my bets and working both sides of the street. Ruth Glick

Book Better Sides Out Indie Bets Both Both Sides Could Never Since Make Print Stick Go Up Wanted Grew Bigger Working Figure Each Publisher Street Profits Royalties

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! Sally Hawkins

Great You Remember Giving Once Drawings Would Would-Be Some About Give Could Writings Said Five Just Dad Publisher

'Sanctus' was done on speculation. I had no agent or publisher. I was being sensible, I suppose, by writing a standalone novel. I figured if that one didn't work, no one would be interested in reading a sequel. Simon Toyne

Work Writing Reading Would Would-Be Had No-One Suppose Done Being Sensible Interested Agent Sequel Figured Novel Publisher Speculation

You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel. Stephen Graham Jones

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Of all the things that the digital revolution has produced, once of the coolest, simplest ones is you can now contact people who write books that you read. You used to have to write a letter to the publisher and hope they passed it along, which they never did. Stephen J. Dubner

Hope You People Digital Revolution Books Once Write Simplest Never Contact Along Read Passed Did Which Produced Used Who Coolest Now Letter Publisher Things

Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything. Steven Amsterdam

Me Bat Everything Has-Been Small Been Huge Being Publisher

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. Ted Turner

Responsibility Took Network Actions Publisher

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher! Terri Windling

Work Technology Live Changed Impact About Writers Since New Editors Get York New York Fantasy England Lives Publisher

To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution. Tim Ferriss

Myself First National Marketing Distribution Bestseller Case More Retail Support Puzzle Piece Make Sell Selling Than Get Just Just One Customers Your Publisher Needed

Authors can get an attitude of us-against-them when it comes to publishers, but learning how authors and editors can work together taught me to look at my work in a different way and to make that work as solid as possible before it ever goes to the publisher. Tracie Peterson

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We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that. Trip Adler

Book Determine Make Read Whether Payments Based Publisher Actually

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. William Nicholson

Me Business Communicate Past Living Way Relic Madly Find About Failed Wrote Supreme Another Because Truths Just Eight Form Literary After Just One Many Novel Among Publisher

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. Zig Ziglar

You Before Rejection Unknown Hundreds Those Slips Tell Willing Thousands Authors Stories Gamble Who Found Publisher Rejection Slips

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