Publishers Quotes - Page 19

• If everybody can author their own story, if media is democratizing because everybody can make a really good-looking website... that's the way we learn now instead of in books. It means that more people get to tell their own story in their own terms rather than having to go through publishers and editors and executives.

  Rachel Maddow

  Book, Mean, Media

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

  Adrienne Rich

  Book, Editors, Chance

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is a secure marketing niche. But the cost of security is exclusion from literary consideration.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mean, Marketing, Exclusion

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being constructed, that [Alex] Haley was vetting - asking questions to the publisher and to the publisher's attorney regarding many of the things that Malcolm X was saying. He was worried that he would not have a book that would have the kind of sting that he wanted.

  Manning Marable

  Book, Asking Questions, Alex

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

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• Think of it more as publishing instead of marketing.Be authentic as a publisher and create content that helps you connect to everyone else...because they're already connected.

  Mitch Joel

  Successful, Thinking, Marketing

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• I think I've learned over the years, because you'd have to be stupid not to, that when a book publisher gives you a deadline they're just kidding for the most part. I don't know what they do with it, it's like you send them your book and they just hold it in their hands for like six months and I don't know why, and you realize you probably had more time.

  Dave Barry

  Stupid, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

  Jonathan Coe

  Writing, Wife, Littles

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• And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fun, Would Be, Stuff

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• Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

  Mary MacLane

  Real, Writing, Would Be

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• An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Rights, Giving, Purpose

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• I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

  Helen Garner

  Dream, Writing, Self

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• Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

  Alma Gluck

  Soul, Purses, Sides

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• Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.

  Steven Amsterdam

  Bats, Has Beens, Huge

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• When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.

  Peg Bracken

  Sound, Recipes, Devotion

  "I Didn't Come Here to Argue (My Feud With Food)". Book by Peg Bracken (p. 22), 1969.

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• Social media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism, one-to-many, to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people and peers.

  Brian Solis

  Media, People, Peers

  Brian Solis (2010). “Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.

  Ben Bova

  Sex, Teenager, People

  "Men on Mars, Women on Venus". Interview with Jay McDonald, Bookpage, June 1999.

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• A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Successful, Self, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Nov 14, 2013

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• The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.

  Dick Costolo

  Funny, Zero, Thoughtful

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• The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

  Mark Millar

  Projects, Tricks, Findings

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• The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Different

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• Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Four, Months

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• Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

  Jasper Fforde

  Writing, Agents, Want

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• What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.

  Jeremy Robinson

  Book, Self, Goal

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• Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

  Chet Williamson

  Second Chance, Easy, Novel

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• As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

  Pete Hegseth

  Civilization, Diversity, Pillars

  "Pete Hegseth's Princeton files" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. March 6, 2012.

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