Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Bezos

We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,

Nigel Barker

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Gregory Benford

As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say.

Stephen Kinzer

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.

Jonathan Galassi

A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.

Paul Aiken

A lot of authors get by on the bits of money they get from various users of their work, and the Internet doesn't change all of that.

Eric Scheirer

Also, musicians and authors will go outside of the major industries to speak directly to consumers. That's starting to be a small trend now, but we see that becoming a very major trend within about two years.

Steve Riggio

This investment is about giving authors with small voices the loudspeakers they need to get their works published and distributed throughout the world,

Susan Whitson

There's a lot of great authors out there, and we're highlighting them at this festival. There may be a difference of opinion on some of the president's policies, and that's their right to express those opinions.

Johnny Rivers

Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.

Kate Thompson

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.

J. A. Konrath

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Denise Mina

There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.

Paul Di Filippo

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

Peter Brimelow

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

John Mehr

We're just steadily working on it. But we have nothing new.

Mike Burke

There are a lot of changes. What we are trying to do is make sure that we are steadily progressing.

Gary Evans

We have steadily grown, as we do it all for the most part.