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“Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.”

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Author:Trip Hawkins

“I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.”

People Want Writing Book Found Reader Critics Publishers Enjoyable Delighted

Author:Jean M. Auel

“All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.”

Significant Fewer Publishing Publishers 1960s

Author:Donald E. Westlake

“What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.”

Want Merit Collaboration Publishers

Author:Piers Anthony

“We're in the media business today. We're in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that's where we make our money. We sell book launch packages to authors and publishers and really help accelerate, build that early buzz that a book needs to succeed when it launches and accelerate that growth through ads on the site.”

Needs Book Helping Today Growth Media Reader Succeed Sells Ads Site Publishers Packages Buzz Accelerate

Author:Otis Chandler

“As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.”

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Author:Piers Anthony

“I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.”

Way Want Years Moments Pay Fiction Accepting Novel Type My Way Publishers Accept Me

Author:Piers Anthony

“I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.”

Want Publishers Headache

Author:Mark Millar

“Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.”

Two Artist Paid Dollars Billions Labels Songwriters Publishers Distribution Collecting Spotify

Author:Daniel Ek

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.”

“If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.”

People Ifs Kind Kindness Attractive Publishers Negative People People In Your Life Mean People Attractiveness

Author:William Feather

“Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.”

“It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.”

Should Years Ends Enough Shows House Amount Shame Rejection Editors Slips Publishers Bricks Confetti Wheelbarrows

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.”

Stories Seems Novel Collections Short Story Publishers Publish Reluctant

Author:John Thomas Sladek

“For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.”

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Author:Michael Musto

“No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.”

Made Reader Machines Publishers Xerox Gutenberg

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.”

Source: The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959

“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.”

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Author:Tim Ferriss

“The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.”

Use Certain Song Pay Comedy Materials Amount Paid Finished Comedian Publishers

Author:Denis Norden

“To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?”

Ifs Men Should Book Mankind Duty Demand Messages Highest Seasons Dare Autumn Honorable Publishers Autumn Season

Author:Aleister Crowley

“With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.”

Ends Literature Industry Hungry Agents Publishers Cottages

Book:You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

“Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.”

Thinking Want Writing Book Plenty Publishers

Author:Louise Brown

“Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.”

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Author:Jim Bouton

“I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.”

Should Writing Feelings Wish Normal Hated Publishers Manuscripts Drudgery

Author:Tanith Lee

“One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.”

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Author:Diane Wakoski

“Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.”

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Author:Nicholson Baker

“I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.”

Knows Writing I Can Book Ends Asks Finals Publishers Synopsis

Author:Jackie Collins

“I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.”

Values Reader Publishers

Author:Marco Arment

“Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.”

Stories Night Towns Train Newspapers Short Story Publishers

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.”

Ifs Writing Able Too Much Expectations Worried Publishers

Author:David Baldacci

“As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.”

Writing Littles Said Bits Wife Little Bit My Wife Journalism Publishers

Author:Jonathan Coe

“I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.”

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Author:Kara DioGuardi

“When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.”

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Author:Kiran Desai

“I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.”

People Writing Stills Form Interest Novel Pace Publishers Pace Of Life

Author:Lydia Davis

“I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.”

Years Book Four Hundred Publishers Shoppers

Author:Alan Davies

“We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.”

Needs Law Steps Consumers Publishers

Author:Barry Diller

“I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.”

Thinking Way Would Be Shame Genre Publishers

Author:Emma Donoghue

“Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.”

Company Aggressive Publishers Jonah

Author:Nick Denton

“As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.”

Book Different Rights Sells Publishers

Author:Buchi Emecheta

“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.”

Giving Littles I Can Lasts Comfortable Give Me Productions Uncomfortable More Time Phases Publishers Deadline

Author:Charles Frazier

“The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing. It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects.”

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Author:Toni Morrison

“Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?”

Writing Long Two Pages Publishers

Author:Dorothy Fields

“The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.”

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Author:Rachel Gibson

“New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.”

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Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Stills Ends Bad Things Publishers

Author:Amanda Hocking

“I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.”

Thinking Want Writing My Own Taste Ideals Resolution Editors Publishers

Author:C. S. Forester

“My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.”

Knows Writing Trying I Can Enough Wanted Purpose Wise Imagine Wonderful Circumstances Let Me Something New Formulas Publishers Backfire

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.”

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Author:Gil Kane

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