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“The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is a secure marketing niche. But the cost of security is exclusion from literary consideration.”

Author:Adrienne Rich

“If everybody can author their own story, if media is democratizing because everybody can make a really good-looking website... that's the way we learn now instead of in books. It means that more people get to tell their own story in their own terms rather than having to go through publishers and editors and executives.”

People Ifs Way Mean Book Stories Term Media Executives Editors Publishers Looking Good Website

Author:Rachel Maddow

“My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us.”

Mother House Nice Type Finals Scripts Publishers Crackers

Author:Judy Blume

“[With "Summer Sisters" the publisher] sent me on a big book tour. And it was the most wonderful professional experience of my life. I mean it was like Kleenex on every table wherever I was, friends patting friends on the back and they'd cry and I'd cry.”

Mean Book Bigs Wonderful Cry Summer Tables Publishers Big Book Kleenex Professional Experience

Author:Judy Blume

“[We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and composer and arranger. There's a lot of ways you can make a contribution.”

Way Needs Player Producers Contribution Composer Publishers Trumpets

Author:Jon Gordon

“Frequently, an author gets "orphaned" at a publisher. What this means is that an editor buys their book, then ends up getting fired, promoted, or transferred to a different job somewhere else. It sucks for the author because suddenly the person who liked your book enough to buy it isn't around to help you edit and promote it.”

Mean Persons Book Different Ends Enough Helping Jobs Editors Publishers Somewhere Else Edits Different Jobs Getting Fired

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“WikiLeaks has been a very strong proponent of the Freedom of Information Act. This is probably, actually, if you think about it, probably against our interests as - as a publisher. But we believe that people have the right to know true information about what their government is doing.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Has Beens Government Strong Interest Information Very Strong Publishers Wikileaks

Author:Julian Assange

“I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.”

“When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book.”

Want Writing Book Speak Gone Written Photograph Favors Editors Publishers Reviewers

Author:Frederic Tuten

“If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.”

Ifs Want Needs Years Two Book Different Literature Names Publishers Publish

Author:Dean Koontz

“Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.”

People Thinking Love Life Happiness Music Musician Music Is Possession Composer Rock And Roll Publishers Music Love Harmony In Music Rock N Roll Music Rock And Roll Music

Author:John Lennon

“According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it.”

Wells Book Sex New York Bills Clinton More Money Publishers Duh

Author:Jay Leno

“When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.”

Looks Bigs Television Interviews Publishers Profile

Author:Doris Lessing

“There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.”

Poor Concepts Publishers Undeserving

Book:Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

“The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.”

Ifs Giving Writing Would Be Careers Trouble Effects Journalist Prize Publishers Notoriety Clout

Author:John Banville

“My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.”

Feminine Editors Publishers

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.”

Writing Belief Decided Publishers Posterity Turned Down

Author:George Ade

“After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.”

Years Has Beens Book Difficult Comedy Publishers New Books

Author:Robert Benchley

“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.”

“I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.”

Thinking Knows Important Guts Editors Publishers

Author:Dan Rather

“Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.”

Ifs Want Facts Care Order Crosses Critics Reviews Publishers Dori

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.”

Way Feelings Novel Media Type Publishers Graphic Bourgeois Graphic Novels Feeling Bad

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.”

World Firsts Real Novel Starting Rejected Publishers Wrenches

Author:Wilbur Smith

“Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.”

Years Book Used Three Four Strategy Classic Expensive Cycles Four Years Depressing Publishers Textbooks Loathe Obsolescence Planned Obsolescence Used Books

Author:James Surowiecki

“When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.”

Action Responsibility Publishers Cnn

Author:Ted Turner

“Don't let schooling interfere with your education.”

Inspirational School Funny Inspiring Education Humorous Entrepreneur Cute Sarcastic Interfere Publishers Funny Inspirational Schooling Humorists Universal Education

Author:Mark Twain

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

Source: The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.”

Believe Names Projects Don't Believe Vanity Publishers Just Believe

Author:Gerard Way

“My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.”

Writing Kind Book Queens Publishers Victoria Toby

Author:A. N. Wilson

“All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.”

People Waiting Filled Publishers Humiliation Jet Venues Private Jet

Author:Alain de Botton

“I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and the organizers invited me and it seemed silly not to go, especially for a relatively unknown first-time author. This is just not my cup of tea; the fewer such events I do on an annual basis, the happier I feel.”

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Author:Evgeny Morozov

“I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing, segmenting etc., can be done by your publisher, not you.”

People Want Writing Heart Done My Heart Marketing Appeals Etc Publishers

Author:Ashwin Sanghi

“It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.”

Important Book Thirds Fourth Publishers

Author:Colm Toibin

“When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time... Of course it's not remotely like seeing a baby for the first time, but I can remember with each book what room I was in when I opened it. That would be excitement, though, I think. Not pride.”

Thinking Firsts I Can Book Would Be Remember Courses Rooms Seeing Pride Baby First Time Excitement Publishers

Author:Colm Toibin

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.”

Writing Reputation Publishers

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.”

Remember Regret Shots Intention Charity Critics Magazines Editors Recalls Publishers Magazine Editors

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.”

Years Firsts Book Earth Names Heard Six Years Ago Finished Fifty Print Publishers Seventies Publish Refusal English Speaking

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”

Love Heart Reason Law Decision Entrepreneur Intellect Reasoning Publishers Scorn Lecturer Humorists

Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”

Life Inspirational War God Funny America Education Learning Creating Humorous Entrepreneur Ironic Publishers Geography Humorists

Author:Mark Twain

“Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.”

Persons Made Enough God Differences Entrepreneur Editors Mistaken Publishers Being Different Resemblance Servant Of God Lecturer Greatness Of God Humorists God Image God Within Us

Book:Everyone's Mark Twain

Source: Everyone's Mark Twain

“Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.”

Numbers Dollars Criminals All Time Journalist Publishing Publishers Quarterback Felony Gonzo Journalism

Book:Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

Source: Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”

Ifs World Life Book Real Majors Resolution Real World Distraction Publishers

Book:Something Rotten: Thursday Next

Source: Something Rotten: Thursday Next

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