Best Publishers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All my life, used the best lotions, finest soaps, nicest oils, and fanciest perfumes to keep my skin nice, only to find out I need thick, hard skin to survive. Oh, the irony.”

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Author:Liz Faublas-Wallace

“Bible publishers are not selling Bibles. What they're selling is that iconic idea of the Bible. Their value-added biblical content promises to provide answers to questions, solutions to problems, and speaks in no uncertain terms about God's plan for your life and how to live it. Adding value to the Bible almost always means adding "biblical" values that are either missing or really hard to find in the Bible itself but that provide that feeling of Bibleness so many seek.”

Expectations Bible Publishers

Book:The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

Source: The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

“Books don't go out of fashion with children. They just go out of fashion with adults and publishers.”

Books Adults Publishers Children S Literature

Book:Caldecott & Co.: Notes on Books and Pictures

Source: Caldecott & Co.: Notes on Books and Pictures

“But really it says everything that’s wrong about the publishing industry, that a quarter of a million people bought and read a sex and shopping novel that wasn’t even written by one of those footballer girlfriends, and yet most of the shortlisted titles on the Orange Prize, which is an award for women writers, don’t even sell ten thousand copies. It’s just not right.”

Books Publishers

Book:You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“A praise from an author to a reader is so important. When an author calls and treats her readers "minions" and expects them to carry out her bullying tactics to anyone she wants to bring down, it is a disrespectful and disgusting use of her authority. Publishers and agents who allow their authors to treat her teen readers in that manner are equally as culpable. - Kailin Gow, Authors Voices”

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Author:Kailin Gow

“In publishing, it doesn't matter which publisher published a book. In the end, if the book resonates with an audience, it is the work itself that matters. - Kailin Gow on Writing and Publishing.”

Writing Publishing Publishers Authors Kailin Gow

Author:Kailin Gow

“Publishing a book does not make you and authority or an expert. Authorship does not equal authority.”

Book Writers Publishers Authorship Loren Weisman Brand Messaging Strategist

Author:Loren Weisman

“Jeg kalder nyttige Bøger dem, som sette Boghandlere udi Activitet, som forfremme Handel, og komme deres Gryder til at kaage, ikke saadanne, der sigte alleene til forfængelig Lærdom, som Almuen, der er Landets Styrke, ikke forstaaer, og derfore gemeenligen oplægges med Boghandlernes største Skade, og ligge skimlede paa Bogladene.”

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Book:Epistler

Source: Epistler

“Producers and studios have produced a mixed bunch of genres. I am a producer who happens to be an author and a publisher so I produce and publish in multiple genres.”

Studios Author Publishers Films Genres Producer

Author:Kailin Gow

“It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It’s creepy, but had good intentions that suddenly experienced some strange form of verticillium wilt, during the climate change of their mood.”

“First of all, please, please, don´t go publish until you are one hundred percent sure you are doing a great job, the best that you may deliver. For in this publishing media it´s easy to get it all wrong when you are just starting. Secondly, find a good editor, or at least a second opinion. You know, four eyes read better than two. You will regret later on for not having a good editor to go through your writing, or having a great artist to do the best cover for your book. Because if there is something I learned during these years in the publishing market it is to never ever underestimate the power of good editing. And my third piece will be to advice about a good image: the saying “never judge a book by its cover” was created by a lazy author who didn´t give much thought of what really works in the marketing of both fiction and nonfiction.”

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Book:How to Make a Book

Source: How to Make a Book

“Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.”

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Author:Michelle M. Pillow

“Writing a second book is not like writing the first. I don't mean that every book is different, though of course there's an element of that. The crucial difference is that when you write your first book, you don't have a publisher, which means you don't have a deadline. Deadlines-well. Deadlines put a whole new spin on this writing lark.”

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Book:The Missing Years

Source: The Missing Years

“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through the darkness for others. I write to be seen and heard. I write to be near those I love. I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper. I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear. I write past the embarrassment of exposure. I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal. I write myself out of nightmares. I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings. I write to remember. I write knowing conversations don’t always take place. I write because speaking can’t be reread. I write to sooth a mind that races. I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand. I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide. I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long. I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be. I write to provide a legacy. I write to make sense out of senselessness. I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding. I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers. I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time. I write because God loves stories. I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.”

“Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain.”

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Book:On the Suffering of the World

Source: On the Suffering of the World

“I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards & his issue--among others--with the judging system, 1981)”

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Book:Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

Source: Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

“It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.”

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Book:Apollo Weeps

Source: Apollo Weeps

“People don't know they want to become an author until they meet me.”

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Author:Lucas J. Robak

“Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.”

Writing Agents Richelle Goodrich Author Richelle Publishers Literary Agent

Author:Richelle E. Goodrich

“Want to publish Your own Book We publish Books on all topics and categories, fiction, nonfiction, Children’s Book, poetry, management, technical, self-help, reference. Biographies and autobiographies, Booklets, Novellas, Academic books, Training manuals, Product manuals. You can publish a book in Hindi or English. Your book is 1 step away to Get Published. Email your Book - [email protected] 2nd Email - [email protected] Call us - +91 - 7017993445”

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Author:Rajmangal Publishers

“That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.”

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Author:Daniel Okrent

“Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?”

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Author:Tamora Pierce

“I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.”

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Author:Ali Smith

“And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.”

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Author:Peter Sotos

“If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.”

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Author:Peter Sotos

“That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.”

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Author:Walter Jon Williams

“I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.”

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Author:Lois Lowry

“My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.”

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Author:Sara Zarr

“As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.”

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Author:P. C. Cast

“Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.”

Thinking Years Littles Long Lasts Half Developing Publishers 1960s

Author:Dan DeCarlo

“I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me”

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Author:J. K. Rowling

“Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.”

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Author:Judith Guest

“Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them.”

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Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.”

Book Program Publishers Inventory

Author:David Dunn

“Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.”

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Book:The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World

Source: The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World

“Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.”

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Author:LeRoy Neiman

“The walls are the publishers of the poor.”

Writing Poor Wall Publishers

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of our understanding of what we call the copyright bargain, the relationship between authors' rights, publishers' leverages and consumers' needs.”

“What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.”

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Author:Maxwell Perkins

“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.”

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Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

“Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie.”

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Author:Geoffrey Hill

“In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which keeps the audience in a state of tense expectancy. Unfortunately for the fans, however, recent tests reveal that the wisp of chiffon which stands between the publisher and the postal laws has the tensile strength of drop-forged steel.”

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Author:S. J. Perelman

“The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

“We're living at a time when attention is the new currency We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Fitbit and the SenseCam give us a simple choice: participate or fade into a lonely obscurity.”

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Author:Pete Cashmore

“Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’”

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Author:Arthur Hays Sulzberger

“The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.”

Knows Know How Right Now Models Happenings Embrace Frightened Publishing Publishers

Author:Tahir Shah

“I am my brain's publisher.”

Brain Intellect Publishers

Author:Philippe Starck

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