Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.
We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.
You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.
Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.
For inexperienced, small developers, getting funding from big game publishers can be a Sisyphean task.
I always had good recognition from the Southern writers, but the publishers never took any notice of that.
What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
Originally I was going to write a fashion style guide, but then my publishers suggested I write a novel instead.
Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.
Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They're creative troublemakers - that's why you hire them.
My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a book.
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.
Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website.
Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
I know most publishers probably don't let their authors write on Wattpad all the time, but mine are pretty open about it.
We tried to just convince big publishers like EA or other people to make games like 'Cloud'... It's just almost impossible.
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
I think the screen size chosen for the iPad is perfect for publishers to render content beautifully, for games to be played.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
'Fahrenheit' was a very difficult product to sell to publishers initially because no-one believed in storytelling or emotion.
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.
Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.
The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.
The big publishers want someone they can send on the Jewish book circuit, somebody the old ladies can see marrying their granddaughters.
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors.
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
Comics fans want new stuff that looks exactly like the old stuff. It is hard for the publishers, and even the audience, to change something.
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.
When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.
I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.
I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.