Publishers Quotes - Page 14

• Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.

  Machado de Assis

  Men, Thinking, Next

  Machado de Assis (1952). “Epitaph of a Small Winner”

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• The whole thing about bullying is: yes, the culture has to change. Yes, teens have the power to change it. It’s not going to happen overnight, but this is definitely something that I want to start motivating teens to do today." - Publisher Weekly

  Susane Colasanti

  Bullying, Culture, Teens

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• Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

  Horace

  Book, Men, Poet

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• People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

  Roger McNamee

  Music, Powerful, People

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• This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.

  Paul Kane

  Encouragement, Home, Flames

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• The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Time, Writing, People

  "Writing a new Philip Marlowe: a question of dialogue, attitude and style" by John Banville, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2015.

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• Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

  A. J. Liebling

  Wine, Insulting, Bottles

  A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.6, North Point Press

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• My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

  Dick Bruna

  Father, Ends, Firm

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• From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

  Ferdinand Lassalle

  Gains, Talent, Making Money

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• There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

  George Orwell

  Daughter, Writing, Way

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

  John B

  World, Attention, Makers

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• A comic book publisher says he's trying to increase voter turnout in the presidential election by publishing comic books about John McCain and Barack Obama. Yeah, the publisher said that the election comic books are targeted at first-time voters and long-time virgins.

  Conan O'Brien

  Book, Long, Presidential

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• The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  New York, Lying, Bigs

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• When new pages are sent to editors and see rejection, we should ask for the reasons. We must study the reasons for failure and learn. It's not about struggle with our limitations or with public or the publishers. It's more about treating it like in aikido; the strength of the attack is used to defeat him with the same effort.

  Jean Giraud

  Struggle, Editors, Rejection

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• Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

  Kieron Gillen

  Self, Long, Serious

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• In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can always reach you. Do what's asked of you if your conscience can bear it. But know that, five years from now, as fans or prospective employers are looking over your published pages, no one will care that this story sucks because the publisher moved the deadline up or because the editor made you work an android cow into the story. All they will care about is what they see in front of them, and they will hold you responsible for it, no one else.

  Mark Waid

  Running, Years, Editors

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• I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Song, Sight, Singing

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• The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

  Steve Case

  Internet, Enterprise

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• I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.

  Otis Blackwell

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make sure the magazine would survive. The point is this: Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to be about more than making money.

  Richard Branson

  Mistake, Editors, Succeed

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• A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

  Austin O'Malley

  Book, Doors, Circus

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• As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Giving Up, Writing, Luxury

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• If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

  Jasper Fforde

  Real, Book, World

  Jasper Fforde (2005). “Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.73, Penguin

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• I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

  A. N. Wilson

  Book, Helping, Interest

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• Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His agent doesn’t love him (enough). The blank sheet of paper is an enemy. The publisher is a cheapskate. The critic is a philistine. The public doesn’t understand him. His wife doesn’t understand him. The bartender doesn’t understand him.

  Peter Mayle

  Wife, Enemy, Agents

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from May 29, 2011

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