Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

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.

Laura Hillenbrand

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

Katherine Paterson

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Otis Blackwell

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.

Alan Garner

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

The so-called No. 2 is actually the first one because he thought the first one, which he wrote second, was a little better, so he had it published first.

These are the sorts of fundamental publishing vices of the most serious kind.

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.

Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

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.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

Thomas Browne

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

Tanith Lee

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

Michael Parenti

The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.

Mark Helprin

Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

Nick Earls

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

Isabel Allende

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Peter Brimelow

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