Publishers Quotes

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will. Helen Garner
Writing Ride Result Desperate Will Every Thousand Dream Must Signing Martini Drink Neurotic Writers Suppose Know Around Idiots Deals Intending Tiny Experts While Decisions Page Who Cool Fully Bars Acts Actual Publishers
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things. Umberto Eco
People Myth Easy Read Want Publishers Things
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor. A. J. Liebling
More Generally Concept Cherished Than Poor Publishers
Roku collects money two ways: by selling hardware, which it calls 'players'; and by selling advertising and taking a cut of revenues from the video publishers on its platform. Adam Lashinsky
Money Ways Taking Advertising Calls Revenues Selling Which Video Cut Platform Publishers Hardware Players Two
Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers. Alma Gluck
Day Soul Every Day Every Side Out Rather Purse Inspired Mercenary Put Fairly Than American Many Works Publishers
People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them. Amanda Hocking
Good People Bad Things Think Say Bad See About Still End Up Any Being Want Them Using Keep Publishers Things Services
When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think. Amish Tripathi
Family Book Writing Care Lost Think Critics About Except Readers Am Friends Close Close Friends Might Publishers
As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God. Amish Tripathi
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Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing. Annalee Newitz
Women Writing Focus Way Paranormal Push Often Subtle Fantasy Publishers
Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish. Anthony Doerr
Book Long Publish Too Magazines Write Pieces Print Without Always Short Bravest Fiction Stories Short Stories Meaning Really Publishers
Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw. Anthony Horowitz
Time Change Strange Relationships Rather Writers Between Like Course Very Publishers
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. Augusten Burroughs
You Yourself Luxury Giving Giving Up Discouraged Plow Must Absolutely Writer Allow Up Being Either Agents Forward Publishers Rejected
Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear. Barry Eisler
World Digital Slow Digital World Everything Paper High Disappear Because Doing Essentially Transition Publishers Margins
The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more. Bill Bryson
Me Travel Book First Kind More Encouraged Did Successful Publishers Britain
Brave plays the long game on behalf of users first, and also publishers, to win a better Web with fast, safe browsing, anonymous micropayments, and user control over data. Brendan Eich
Game Win Better Long First Control Web Data Over Safe Also Anonymous Behalf Brave User Users Fast Publishers Plays
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money. Buchi Emecheta
Rights Book Money Paperback Finish Soon Sell Where Different Publishers
I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested! Calvin Harris
Future Good People Three Enough Out Week Knew Stuff Tracks Demos Were Been Years Same Send Sending Manager Getting Happened Interested Then Sudden Nowhere Publishers Publishing Two
While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in the second week, they stop paying attention to you. Caroline Leavitt
You Book Big Out Some Give Week Advances Attention Does Hit Stop Lists While Might Your Paying Publishers Second
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money. Chad Harbach
Wisdom You Money Collections New Know Make Sort York Short Common New York Short Story Story Among Publishers
Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am. Charles Frazier
Time Me You Whatever Those Give Give Me More Uncomfortable Push Perfectly Like Make Deadlines Comfortable Am Little Them Production Publishers Extent Phases Last
What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays. Chris Avellone
You People Try Made Stupid Nowadays Pump Meet Kickstarter Must About Feel Like Still Dollars Get Want Games Even Helps Play Publishers Million Bells Million Dollars Bells And Whistles
There's so much published by so many different publishers. Most of the time, I don't have to confront that, but walking into a conference center filled with books - and people buying them or not buying them, being interested or not interested in them - that's just overwhelming to me now. Chris Pavone
Time Me People Overwhelming Books Most Walking Conference Just Being Different Center Not Interested Interested Confront Them Much Many Filled Now Published Publishers Buying
When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions. Chris Riddell
Work Art Sometimes School Met Illustrations Drawings Response Visiting Enthusiastic Polite Left Art School Them Showing Search Publishers
I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. Christopher Hitchens
Stuff Like Editors Much Showing Even Publishers
My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish and would not be familiar to English editors, one of them said: 'If she writes anything else, do let us know.' Slowly, very slowly, the books began to sell and be noticed. Colm Toibin
First Half Down Else Books Would Slowly About Writes Over Name Know Period Half Years She Because Said Editors Years Sell Began Very Familiar Irish Anything Anything Else Them Turned Us Noticed English Novel Twenty Let Us Publishers Two
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. Cyril Connolly
Life Fear Become Those Supposed Policemen Irrational Repressed Butcher Publishers
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