Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.
Hunter S. ThompsonStichwörter: money journalists publishing publishers
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.
Piers AnthonyStichwörter: storytelling publishers
It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.
Elizabeth ClementsStichwörter: writing publishing rejection publishers manuscript
I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards
Jack McClellandStichwörter: humor writing authors publishing judging awards publishers
—Amy said that would be an imprudent expense; but as soon as he had got a good price for a book. Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!
George GissingStichwörter: publishers
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 ShawStichwörter: authors business publishing publishers contracts agents
But really it says everything that’s wrong about the publishing industry, that a quarter of a million people bought and read a sex and shopping novel that wasn’t even written by one of those footballer girlfriends, and yet most of the shortlisted titles on the Orange Prize, which is an award for women writers, don’t even sell ten thousand copies. It’s just not right.
Sarra ManningStichwörter: books publishers
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.
Richard CurtisStichwörter: writing publishing writing-life publish publishers
Girls, we're fiction editors--we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he'll never forget.
Stephanie BondStichwörter: romance comedy mystery publishers editors
When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.
Richelle E. GoodrichStichwörter: writing author publishers agents richelle richelle-goodrich literary-agent
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