Publishers Quotes - Page 11

• The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

  Bill Bryson

  Book, Successful, Firsts

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• When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.

  Luke Bryan

  Song, Writing, Boys

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• As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

  Cyril Connolly

  Life, Fear, Publishing Books

  Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 10

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• It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

  Umberto Eco

  People, Want, Easy

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• I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.

  Eric Sykes

  Book, Said, Print

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• In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.

  Scott Pelley

  Editors, World, Today

  Scott Pelley's speech upon receiving the Fred Friendly journalism award at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, May 11, 2013.

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• Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

  David Meerman Scott

  Thinking, Media, Marketing

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• I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

  Kenneth Anger

  People, Risk, May

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• It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

  Leslie Banks

  Blessing, Answers, Submit

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• No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

  Jean M. Auel

  Marketing, Done

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• In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

  Peter Sotos

  Past, People, Marketing

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• Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist

  Michael Bolton

  Song, Giving Up, Home

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• The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

  George Orwell

  Book, Penguins, Splendid

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

  David Eddings

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. They'll be the richest, the most successful, the most connected, capable and influential among us. We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make.

  Pete Cashmore

  Successful, Connections, Looks

  "Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun" by Pete Cashmore, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2009.

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• Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Successful, Trying

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• I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.

  Piers Anthony

  Years, Fiction, Want

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• As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

  Piers Anthony

  Book, Editors, Collaboration

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• What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

  Piers Anthony

  Collaboration, Want, Merit

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• I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

  Mitch Albom

  Writing, Grades, Memoir

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• I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Book, America, United States

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• Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Literature, Translators

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• To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Kings, Technology, Media

  "His Space". Interview with Spencer Reiss, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

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• I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

  Ed McBain

  Agreement, Trying, Sometimes

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• Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

  Erik Qualman

  Powerful, Party, Successful

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