Publishers Quotes - Page 12

• 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.

  John Banville

  Writing, Careers, Giving

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• 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.

  Robert Benchley

  Book, Years, Comedy

  "Love Conquers All".

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• The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

  Louise Brown

  Girl, Dancing, Lahore

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• 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.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Waiting, Humiliation

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• But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

  Aaron Swartz

  Book, Needs, Heritage

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.26, The New Press

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• Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all of the above. a) it will keep your journalistic ‘muscle’ in practice. b) if you’re any good, you’ll get noticed. And bear in mind you can do these things at other places than conventional news organisations. Many businesses, NGOs, arts organisations, public bodies, universities, etc are now publishers of extremely high quality stuff. Good places to practise your craft before moving on.

  Alan Rusbridger

  Art, Moving, Writing

  "I am Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian - the news org that broke the story of NSA surveillance of US citizens - AMAA", rebrn.com. July 31, 2013.

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• I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

  Michael Connelly

  Believe, Book, Thinking

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• Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

  Kinky Friedman

  Writing, Hot, Rejected

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• The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

  Jim Harrison

  Fun, War, Literature

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Dutch, Amsterdam

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• Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Long, Interesting

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• I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Finishing, Males

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• 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.

  Dan Rather

  Thinking, Editors, Important

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

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

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Years, Names

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

  A. N. Wilson

  Queens, Book, Writing

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• 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.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Silly, Book, Mean

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• 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.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Writing, Heart, People

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

  Colm Toibin

  Book, Important, Thirds

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• 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.

  Colm Toibin

  Baby, Book, Pride

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Writing, Reputation

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Editors, Charity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7132, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Jay Leno

  Sex, New York, Book

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• 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.

  Doris Lessing

  Looks, Television, Interviews

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• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Order, Care, Want

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