Publishers Quotes - Page 18

• Frequently, an author gets "orphaned" at a publisher. What this means is that an editor buys their book, then ends up getting fired, promoted, or transferred to a different job somewhere else. It sucks for the author because suddenly the person who liked your book enough to buy it isn't around to help you edit and promote it.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Jobs, Book, Mean

  Source: aidanmoher.com

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• That sort of effort has to come not only from the writer but also from a really innovative publisher like Quirk.

  Theodora Goss

  Effort, Quirks, Innovative

  Source: www.bookequals.com

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• When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book.

  Frederic Tuten

  Book, Writing, Editors

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

  Frederick Busch

  Book, Imagine, Whole

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in a draft stage and that before it can leave the writer's hands and head to a publisher, it needs about five more revisions. Some people don't want to do that.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Book, Hands, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.

  John Gimlette

  Talking, People, Four

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your arse, love, and sign it in person. Publishers and circumstance made you a bestselling author. Give a little back.

  Nicholas Royle

  Book, Giving, Littles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Post-publication I have been surprised at the limited resources publishers have to promote books. I certainly knew that being a new author, I would have to do a lot of self-promoting, but it really has surprised me just how much I have had to do myself to make sure the books get into the hands of young people.

  Renee Watson

  Book, Self, Hands

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a Michael Jackson impersonator and I played his publisher.I was just really good at my job.We were just about to go onto the field to throw out the first pitch just two weeks after 9\11. It was a huge security breach, and we made a lot of cops look really dumb. Producers of the show thought it would be really funny and I didn't think about it because I was a young dumb comedian. So I got arrested and went to jail in the Bronx, and now I can never go back to Yankee Stadium.

  Rob Huebel

  Jobs, Thinking, Jail

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The biggest challenge I think every publisher is facing is how do we get readers to pay for content? So we're constantly testing, trying new things.

  Maria Rodale

  Thinking, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.mcall.com

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• You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Want, Know How

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• Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new markets for e-book reading devices and other hardware. End-users most of all want a wide range and generous amount of high-quality content for free or at reasonable costs. Like end-users, libraries want quality, quantity, economy, and variety as well as flexible business models.

  Tom Peters

  Reading, Book, Mean

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs. I did little groups. I had no following.

  Simon Sinek

  Entrepreneur, Groups, Littles

  Source: advisor.tv

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• We had tried to get a couple books that were written about Ray Kroc, and one of the books, we called the publisher. The publisher actually said, "Call McDonald."

  Jeremy Renner

  Couple, Book, Mcdonalds

  Source: deadline.com

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• When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.

  Julianna Baggott

  New York, Book, Notable

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers in many different ways, whether or not it made this list or got that review, etc. I'm sure some of that thinking has been useful to me as a writer as well.

  Danielle Dutton

  Book, Thinking, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  People, Want, Wonderful

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors, poetry, and the other marginal but hugely important regions of the book world.

  David Edelstein

  Book, Important, Shy

  "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 2012.

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• From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want me to use words of more than two syllables if I could help it. He didn't want me to waste time on worrying about good dialogue or characterization. Just give me a lot of action, lot of fight scenes.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Fighting, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title. And when you're reading it, and you're writing it, and you're ingesting it, sometimes a single word just comes up over and over and over again. And if you're trying to capture the essence of what it is you're trying to tell, you don't have a whole lot of space.

  Andrew Aydin

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Judging, Chinese, Goes On

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• And so with Hemingway's writing, he famously wrote to one of his publishers - he said, you don't need a high school education to enjoy my writing. And it's going to titillate the masses. I mean, anybody can relate to it, but the style is so revolutionary that it will titillate highbrow critics, which it did.

  Lesley M. M. Blume

  Mean, Writing, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Games, Smell

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• In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets.

  Jodi Picoult

  Country, Book, Cartoon

  Source: nudge-book.com

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