The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.
Michael MoorcockTags: publishing awards
It has been our experience that American houses insist on very comprehensive editing; that English houses as a rule require little or none and are inclined to go along with the author's script almost without query. The Canadian practice is just what you would expect--a middle-of-the-road course. We think the Americans edit too heavily and interfere with the author's rights. We think that the English publishers don't take enough editorial responsibility. Naturally, then, we consider our editing to be just about perfect. There's no doubt about it, we Canadians are a superior breed! (in a letter to author Margaret Laurence, dated May, 1960)
Jack McClellandTags: humor writing canada letters editing publishing
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 McClellandTags: humor writing authors publishing judging awards publishers
I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.
Jack McClellandTags: writing survival editing publishing
The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously. For example, it has been brought to my attention that our ability to continue to pay the hordes of people employed by M
Jack McClellandTags: humor writing editing editor publishing margaret-atwood
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
Jacques BarzunTags: writing scholarship funny publishing
Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?
Roman PayneTags: books writing writers interview heroism writer escape publishing flame roman novelist heroic roman-payne novel-writing author-interview tediousness voluptuousness
Publicamos para não passar a vida a corrigir rascunhos. Quer dizer, a gente publica um livro para livrar-se dele
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: publishing
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.
Margaret AtwoodTags: writing publishing
You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.
Jayce O'NealTags: humor books writing publishing jayce drjayce jayceoneal
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