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“Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to eclipse everything. They will save traditional publishing the way DVDs saved movie studios (for a while) and they'll greatly expand the number of readers.”

Author:Matt Groening

“My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.”

Kind Book Use Beautiful Poetry Design Publishers Skates Roosters Beautiful Books

Author:Gene Stratton-Porter

“I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.”

Littles Book Fall Millions Pieces Authenticity Rely Disappointed Categories Publishers Controversy Million Little Pieces I Am Disappointed

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.”

Believe Hands Wish Sides Lays Don't Believe Smell Publishers Both Sides Sabbath Methodists Treacle

Book:Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader

Source: Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader

“My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.”

Firsts Two Book Publishers

Author:Mario Benedetti

“Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for Seesaw Girl, eight months for Shard, three years for When My Name Was Keoko! The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.”

Writing Years Book Different Girl Three Names Half Taken Four Months Eight Length Three Years Four Years Publishers Publish Another Year Seesaw

Author:Linda Sue Park

“And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.”

Would Be Fun Stuff Wonderful Reader Publishers Anthology

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different even if there's a risk of it going wrong.”

Ifs Children Book Different Wanted Difficult Risk Series Teeth Fourth Pulling Publishers Linked Children's Books

Author:Mark Haddon

“As a writer, its 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.”

Way Want Giving Should Important Stories Reader Critics Karma Publishers Stay True Hoot

Author:Amish Tripathi

“An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.”

Giving Purpose Rights Performances Managers Publishers Publication Imbeciles

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.”

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic... And those were all things I hated.”

Writing Years Children Book Stories Young Felt Stupid Please Adults Comic Hated Comic Book Publishers Young Children

Author:Stan Lee

“The cliché I tried to avoid was I hated "teenage sidekicks." I always figured if I were a superhero, there's no way on God's earth that I'm gonna pal around with some teenager. So my publisher insisted I have a teenager in the series, because they always felt teenagers won't read the books unless there's a teenager in the story; which is nonsense.”

Ifs Way Book Stories Earth Felt Series Teenager Hated Nonsense Teenage Publishers Superhero Pals Sidekicks

Author:Stan Lee

“I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they can make a lot of money and they build an audience from book to book, but I don't like that as a writer. I prefer the idea of just telling a story, completing it within your book, and moving on and not forcing a child to read eight of them.”

Children Book Ideas Stories Moving Found Novel Audience Series Eight Lots Of Money Publishers Completing

Author:John Boyne

“I actually produced other people's vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort of decided that I only wanted to be a writer. I would be in all of these writing sessions, and a lot of times my publisher would say, "You should get a demo singer to sing it because then it doesn't identify as a Solange song."”

People Should Writing Firsts Long Would Be Wanted Song Deals Long Time Decided Singers Publishing Publishers Session Vocal Demos

Author:Solange Knowles

“There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.”

Ifs Made Certain Broken Leap Editors Nonfiction Publishers Embarrassing Leap Of Faith Fiction And Nonfiction Broken Things Writing Nonfiction

Author:A. Scott Berg

“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.”

Writing Stills Roles Research Chiefs Journalist Editors Publishers

Author:Julian Assange

“I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.”

I Can Book Bigs Seeing New York Six Shots Lists Publishers New York Times Bookstores Supermarkets Allure

Author:Barry Eisler

“I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.”

Meetings Bars Restaurants Relax Publishers Relaxation Illustrators

Author:Tony Ross

“Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.”

Technology Increase Disappear Digital Publishers Exploits Bookstores Inventory Digital Technology

Author:Jason Epstein

“Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.”

Want Writing One Thing Agents Publishers Good Writing

Author:Jasper Fforde

“What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.”

Book Different Self Goal Audience Novelists Publishers Format

Author:Jeremy Robinson

“Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.”

Easy Chance Novel Publishers Second Chance

Author:Chet Williamson

“It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.”

Country Support Paper Labor Rewards Newspapers Advertising Publishers Mechanic Advertisers

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“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!”

Years Hours Grace Dreamer Thread Publishers Manuscripts

Author:Mary Doria Russell

“I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?”

Ifs Thinking Difficult Reader Safe Average Winner Paris Topics Publishers Thrillers Disinterested Playing It Safe Bangkok

Author:John Burdett

“We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.”

Wanted Felt Models Extremes Focused Advertising Length Muse Publishers Business Models

Author:Kathryn Minshew

“Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.”

People Light Given Creative Growing Up Growing Doors England Green Publishers Banging Green Lights

Author:Nick Bantock

“I believe that online paid content hasn't worked for general circulation newspapers because consumers weren't ready for it, because the implementation did not deliver enough value, because content was typically the same as in the print version, and because much of the material was being syndicted by the papers to other publishers or was not protected with DRM technologies to exclude use by others.”

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Author:Robert G. Picard

“As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things. Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and that's it.”

People Knows Years Book Political Fighting Deals Couple Crap Publishers Publicists

Author:Robert Greene

“Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?”

Ifs Book Obscure Publishers Obscurity Murphy Compression

Author:Samuel Beckett

“As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.”

Book Stories Study Research Trade Average Usual Milk Shelves Publishers Atrocities Anthology Employing Shelf Life

Book:Uncivil liberties

Source: Uncivil liberties

“The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.”

“It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.”

School Christian Religious Court Supreme Classroom Supreme Court Publishers Public School Textbooks

Author:James J. Kilpatrick

“When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.”

Should Persons Poetry Company Poet Lovers Clothes Sight Wave Journalist Thieves Publishers

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.”

Ifs Firsts Kind Book States Stories Loses United United States Novel Four Hero Overcoming Murder Volume Publishers Heroines Spiritualism

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it.”

People Book Literature Poet Reader Sells Critics Publishers Monument Biographers Rubble

Book:Trust

Source: Trust

“I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive”

Years Book Remember Alive Rejected Publishers

Author:Arianna Huffington

“'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.”

Names Majors Rejects Publishers Wrinkles Wrinkle In Time

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work. It's something I find very difficult. And yet, one does have some sense of responsibility towards one's publishers, to the people trying to sell the book.”

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Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I am asked to submit a 2-3 page synopsis to my publisher ahead of time, so by the time I begin writing, I have a fair idea of where the story will begin, the main conflicts, and the basic ending point. But that still leaves plenty of room for changes and discovery along the way.”

Way Writing Stills Ideas Stories Rooms Conflict Pages Discovery Fairs Plenty Submit Publishers Ahead Of Time Synopsis

Author:Julie Klassen

“An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.”

Way Artist Enjoy Simple Deals Pure Humble Accepted Editors Contracts Publishers Galaxy Be Humble Castes Insisting Caste System

Author:Jack Kirby

“The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.”

People Form Young Artist Individual Interest Levels Deals Higher Taxes Financial Businessman Lowest Publishers Ladders Higher Level Accountants Young Artists

Author:Jack Kirby

“When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does" - I check first of all how much dialog there is, and if it looks too abundant or too sustained, I shut the book with a bang.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Doe Book Novel Checks Hopeful Publishers Bangs

Book:Strong opinions

Source: Strong opinions

“I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a lot of baggage - my history as a genre writer in the SF and horror fields, for instance - to the novel when they read it. I wanted them to consider the book solely on its own merits. So I called myself Colin Andrews. I was tired of seeing my books at floor level. Not that Herman Wouk and Phyllis Whitney and William Wharton are bad company, but I wanted to be up at eye level for a change, where people with bad backs could get a chance to see my books.”

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Author:F. Paul Wilson

“I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.”

People Writing Book Form Reader Appreciate Various Entertainment Storytelling Publishers Good Writing Good Storytelling

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.”

“Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers want to keep the momentum going. It's the kind of art I love to make, except that the time frame is really nutty.”

Want Years Kind Art Book Kids Written Series Chapters Publishers Momentum Nutty

Author:Carson Ellis

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