Publisher Quotes

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher. (A. Scott Berg)
My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm! View quote
Dick Bruna
I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance. View quote
Mark Millar
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves. View quote
Diane Wakoski
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today. View quote
Scott Pelley
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter. View quote
Andy Rooney
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. View quote
Ben Bova
It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book. View quote
Colm Tóibín
Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world. View quote
John D. Carmack
In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil. View quote
Randall Jarrell
The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books. (Rachel Gibson)
If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it's because they're picturing the movie poster on the side of the bus. View quote
Dave Morris
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it. View quote
Jim Harrison
A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books. View quote
Margaret Mahy
The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised. View quote
Mark Millar
I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brains send me a product... I am my brain's publisher. View quote
Philippe Starck
No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. View quote
David Halberstam
A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage. View quote
Cass Canfield
The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine. View quote
Edward Bok
Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist. (Michael Bolton)
I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that. View quote
Otis Blackwell
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. View quote
Pete Earley
The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that. View quote
Robert Scheer
Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher! View quote
Terri Windling