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“Distributed print is arguably our biggest challenge as a machinery supplier, as more publishers find efficiencies in transferring print production to remote printers and supersites. But our signature Goss flexibility and adaptability allow us to meet that challenge head-on with relevant technologies, services and expertise that continue to provide customers with an edge.”

Challenges Technology Edges Productions Customers Print Relevant Efficiency Publishers Flexibility Machinery Expertise Signatures Adaptability Printer Suppliers

Author:Eric Bell

“In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities.”

America Opportunity Interest Capacity Investment Productions Improvement Newspapers Significant Mediums Capability Efficiency Publishers Boost North America Enhancement

Author:Eric Bell

“Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're going to expect me to say that I would love to see more books by Native American authors and African-American authors and Arab-American authors. But when a teacher or librarian says this to publishers, it can have a profound effect.”

Children Book Young Speak Teacher Effects Adults Profound Young Adult African American Native Native American Publishers Librarian American Author

Author:Pat Mora

“Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print", and hard-to-find books can be easily available. So far, the only limitation seems to be finding a way for the writer to be paid.”

Way Needs Book Hard Seems Findings Advantage Paid Available Limitation Print Publishers Print Books

Author:Kate Grenville

“I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.”

“My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."”

Said Book Like You Prose Publishers Dakota Mileage

Author:Tao Lin

“I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn't move to the larger presses until they knew what they were getting in for.”

Moving Form Willing Presses Publishers Publish

Author:Lydia Davis

“As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors.”

Thinking Way Writing Would Be Cases Impossible Ill Publishing Multiple Publishers Great Writers Emily Canon Proust

Author:Judith Thurman

“When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.”

Said Wanted America Pages Independent Winter Connected Memoir Titles Genre Journal Publishers

Author:Paul Auster

“I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.”

People Giving Writing Kind Has Beens Accounts Give Me Response Reviews Splits Publishers

Author:Paul Auster

“Launching Collins in the U.S. fulfills the original vision of the 1989 union of Harper & Row and William Collins. Publishing has clarified the many benefits of working as a global company. I believe that a true 21st century publisher is a global publisher. Harper Collins is well on its way.”

Way Believe Wells I Believe Company Vision Century Benefits Originals Unions Publishing 21st Century Publishers Launching Harper

Author:David D. Friedman

“Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.”

Writing Book Checks Faster Publishers Writers And Writing Writing By Writers

Author:Richard Curtis

“Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.”

Ifs World Turns Imagine Folks Boss Imagine That Publishers Middlemen

Author:Seth

“The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.”

Has Beens Real Spirit Courses Emotion Effects Anxiety Uncertainty Depressing Publishers Calamity

Author:Richard Curtis

“By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. - have ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.”

“I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.”

Ifs Book Turns Selling Traditional Publishers Selling Books

Author:Richard Curtis

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

Running Remember Agency Publishers

Author:Richard Curtis

“Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.”

Presses Zero Publishers Ground Zero

Author:Richard Curtis

“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.”

Way Past Form Novel Communicate Eight Supreme Just One Publishers Relics

Author:William Nicholson

“But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.”

Sports Journey Fool Demand Praise Court Publishers Wondrous Authorship Spawn Bright Days

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.”

Writing May Written Flower Leaving Memoir Evening Forty Faculty Publishers Leaving Me Fitting Discreet

Book:James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.”

Persons Evil Mets Publishers Toss Crooks Maxwell

Author:Paul Johnson

“Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one. His publisher has described it as 'a thriller for people who don't like thrillers'. One newspaper put it thus: 'It is terribly written, its characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialogue is excruciating in places and, a bit like a computer manual, everything is overstated and repeated - but it is impossible to put the bloody thing down.”

People Character Found Bits Impossible Written Style Computer Critics Newspapers Dialogue Narrative Bloody Publishers Thrillers Manuals Cloaks Veneer Erudition

Author:Dan Brown

“I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola's. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.”

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Author:John Adams

“My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.”

Process Agents Afternoon Publishers Proposal August Thursday Bidding

Author:Laura Hillenbrand

“The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.”

“Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?”

Thinking World Book Age Internet Thirds Agree Sells Agents Copies Print Publishers Pirate Third World Piracy

Author:Charles Stross

“You can't sell a book in America if you don't dump on Bush. That's the cheapest shot in the world. You cannot get an advance, and you can't sell a book because the publishers are all people who hate Bush and hate Republicans.”

People Ifs World Book America Hate Republican Shots Sells Publishers Dump

Author:Roger Ailes

“I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.”

Writing Sometimes Enjoy Hell Strive Minimum Publishers Promotion Publicity Dismay

Author:Dean Koontz

“I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.”

Stills Real Country Facts Literature Challenges Materials Publishing Publishers

Author:Alan Lightman

“I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.”

Stuff Editors Publishers

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.”

Practice Asking Managers Cents Publishers Imbeciles

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.”

Men Done Literature Teach Objects Judging Fine Artistic Publishers Good Business Business Man

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.”

Source: The shores of light: a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirties

“I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. They're printing the comics so small that most strips are just talking heads, and if you look back at the glory days of comic strips, you can see that they were showcases for some of the best pop art ever to come out.”

Ifs Thinking Way Looks Art Talking Glory Pops Newspapers Treated Mediums Comic Going Out Publishers Printing Pop Art Comic Strips Showcase Talking Heads Glory Days

Author:Matt Groening

“"Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed out that David in the book was twelve years old, the publisher said that he was striking matches to summon the devil, then, and this couldn't be allowed.”

Years Children Said Book Devil Eight Strikes Agents Confused Twelve Publishers Luke

Author:Diana Wynne Jones

“Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.”

Goal Economic Publishers

Author:Mathias Dopfner

“If you feel like keeping a journal-that neither you nor anyone else on earth will ever want to read-be my guest. But if you want to write something that may eventually see the light of day, that a magazine might buy or a publisher publish, then you'll have to knock off the journaling and do the grunt work that real writing requires.”

Ifs Want Feels Writing May Real Light Might Earth Magazines Guests Journal Publishers Publish Journaling Grunt Keeping A Journal

Book:Robert's Rules of Writing

Source: Robert's Rules of Writing

“Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'”

Want Writing Reason Right Now Independent Faults No Reason Publishers Doing Right

Author:Jennifer Armintrout

“No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.”

Enough Pay Publishers

Author:Dave Sim

“If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.”

Source: Animal farm: a fairy story

“If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you've written against the various middlemen - editors, agents and publishers - whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards not so high.”

Ifs Want Writing May Different Written Willing Pride Standards Sight Details Various Crafts Agents Editors Smallest Publishers Obsessive Middlemen

Author:William Zinsser

“I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.”

Thinking Writing Years Looks Children Book Written Childhood Adults Eight Publishers Writing A Book Nostalgic Children's Books

Author:Jeff Kinney

“A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.”

People Has Beens Bigs Used Speak Results Presses Publishers Speak The Truth Erosion Close Relationship

Author:Craig Newmark

“Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.”

Wells Ideas Seems No Idea Publishers Alcoholics Haze

Author:James Purdy

“No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.”

Should Matter Values Opinion Critics Publishers Publish

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption.”

Writing Book Careers Corruption Destroyed Protest Reviews Publishers Bothered Surly

Author:Warren Murphy

“Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.”

May Persons Action Past Novel Virtue Written Finished Memoir Conclusion Publishers Manuscripts Retrospective

Author:Nuala O'Faolain

“The author of the extremely successful Twilight series was rejected by 14 different publishers before the 15th picked up Twilight. What would all the tweens do if Bella and Edward hadn't been brought to life?!”

Ifs Different Successful Series Twilight Rejected Publishers Twilight Series Tweens

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher”

Want Play Fans Publishers

Author:Oscar Wilde

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