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I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
Dan Rather
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Journalist
Editors
Guts
Important
Thinking
Editor
Publisher
Reporting
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I've been told not to tour down in Mexico. I am too well-known now. The kidnappers may think that my publisher will pay a ransom.
Luis Alberto Urrea
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Poet
Mexico
Publisher
Copy Quote
If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.
Meg Wolitzer
/
Writer
Feminine
Cover
Publisher
Puts
Types
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You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.
Alexander Mccall Smith
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Writer
None
One Book
Publisher
Copy Quote
I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'
Darren Shan
/
Author
Never Forget
Teenage
Never Forget Forget Never
Meeting
Forget Never Where
Publisher
Copy Quote
It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.
Colson Whitehead
/
Novelist
Editor
Publisher
Copy Quote
When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.
Anita Elberse
/
Acquisition
Inordinate
Publisher
Copy Quote
It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.
Ian Gillan
/
Vocalist
Producer
Organically
Our Music
Publisher
Copy Quote
Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
J. A. Konrath
/
Authors
Cover
Publisher
Copy Quote
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
David Eddings
/
Writer
Funny
Graduation
Inspirational
Degrees
Novel
Professors
Submit
Degree
Publisher
Sympathize
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For a major publisher like Time Inc. to embrace Bitcoin sends an important message to both its readers and to the broader media community.
Brian Armstrong
/
Bitcoin
Embrace
Broader
Important Message
Major
Publisher
Readers
Sends
Copy Quote
While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.
Andrew Shaffer
/
Criticism
Posts
Shelves
Blog
Deleted
Drawn
Publisher
Tweets
Copy Quote
A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work.
Jonathan Galassi
/
Print
Positions
Publisher
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When it comes to my songs I'm confident. Back in 1967, I would go to a publisher's office, and tell them they just had to listen to my music.
Gilbert O'sullivan
/
Publisher
Copy Quote
Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'
Alex Gibney
/
Film Director
Essence
Guardian
New York Times
Pure
Wikileaks
Publisher
Copy Quote
It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
Walt Mossberg
/
Journalist
Divided
Fleeting
Advertise
Money World Your
Publisher
Task
Copy Quote
Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of Grace' to the publisher!
Mary Doria Russell
/
Novelist
Grace
Thread
Manuscript
Publisher
Copy Quote
As a publisher, you should decide what content is free and what you'd pay for. You have to get the packaging right, but people will pay for content.
Mike Mccue
/
Entrepreneur
Packaging
Free People Will
Publisher
Copy Quote
It can sometimes feel like the commercials for Activision's 'Call of Duty' series are always on. If the publisher has its way, the games will be, too.
Jason Schreier
/
Commercials
Sometimes Way Feel
Publisher
Copy Quote
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.
Dave Morris
/
Bus
Jumping
Up And Down
Agent
Picturing
Poster
Publisher
Copy Quote
I got into an argument with my original publisher. They wanted me to do 'Kitty' and nothing else. I wanted to do lots of things, not just 'Kitty' books.
Carrie Vaughn
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Author
Publisher
Copy Quote
Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.
Julian Assange
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Journalist
Editors
Roles
Writing
Investigate
Journalists
Primarily
Publisher
Copy Quote
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
Alain De Botton
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Writer
Filled
Humiliation
Jet
People
Waiting
Fly Me People
Tours
Publisher
Venue
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A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it.
Kerry Greenwood
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Author
Admirable
Contract
Detective
Detective Story
Grabbed
Offered
Publisher
Copy Quote
I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
Sally Hawkins
/
Film Actress
Dad
Drawing
Writing
Drawings
Publisher
Writings
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Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support of a large publisher.
Jennifer Armintrout
/
Author
Amanda
Following
Authors
Hugh
Immediately
Initial
Publisher
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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.
Cass Canfield
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Publisher
Ends
Receiving
Stage
Writing
Anonymous
Author
Center
Letting
Publisher
Remain
Subject
Copy Quote
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
Zig Ziglar
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Author
Found
Gamble
Rejection
Slips
Stories
Willing
Unknown
Authors
Hundreds
Publisher
Rejection Slips
Thousands
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I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.
Marc Davis
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Connections
Newspapers
Newspaper
Promised
Publisher
Copy Quote
I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.
Jim Lee
/
Artist
Decades
Responsibility
Timely
Books
Manner
Publisher
Staple
Copy Quote
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
/
Singer-Songwriter
Pursuit
Business Good Home
Publisher
Copy Quote
My grandfather, my dad's dad, he was a lawyer. He was a state legislator. He was the publisher of Oregon's second largest newspaper. He was a pretty amazing guy.
Travis Knight
/
Grandfather
Oregon
Largest
Legislator
Newspaper
Publisher
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If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider it. But anything less than that, I'm sure I can do better on my own.
J. A. Konrath
/
Dollars
Million Dollars
Traditional
Me Better I Can
Offered
Publisher
Quarter
Copy Quote
When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
J. A. Konrath
/
Print
Author
Earn
Exploiting
Publisher
Copy Quote
Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
Victoria Strauss
/
Electronic
Options
Publisher
Copy Quote
When you're making a print book in 2012, I actually think the onus is on you - and on your publisher - to make something that's worth buying in its physical edition.
Robin Sloan
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Author
Buying
Print
Edition
Publisher
Copy Quote
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.
David Halberstam
/
Journalist
Quality
America
Excellence
Paper
Scale
Brought
Grand
Improved
Marginal
Publisher
Qualities
Quickly
Took
Copy Quote
I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'
Emma Donoghue
/
Playwright
Contemporary
Please
Selling
Work Better Your
Work Look Me
Publisher
Copy Quote
I'm fortunate that I have a female publisher, and her boss is a man of color. My world is a little more diverse, but the majority of the business is not diverse at all.
Justin Tranter
/
Color
Diverse
Female
Fortunate
Majority
Business Man World
Publisher
Copy Quote
I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in 'Publisher's Weekly,' and it looks like it will be dark, I'll track it down.
Ellen Datlow
/
Fictioneer
Track
Collection
Publisher
Weekly
Copy Quote
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
/
Novelist
Bits
Journalism
Littles
Wife
Writing
Carve
Picking
Publisher
Copy Quote
Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.
Nick Bantock
/
Artist
Banging
Doors
Green
Growing Up
Light
Green Light
Publisher
Suddenly
Copy Quote
After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
A. Scott Berg
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Biographer
Wilson
Carrying
Hip
Pocket
Publisher
Whom
Woodrow
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I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.
Jeff Kinney
/
Game Designer
Eight
Nostalgic
Informed
Publisher
Copy Quote
My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.
Ashwin Sanghi
/
Author
Adventure
Hitting
Traditional
Led
Picked
Publisher
Copy Quote
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
Karl Marlantes
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Author
Agents
Novel
Spare Time
Writing
Years
Agent
Manuscript
Publisher
Spare
Unable
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When I realized that I can invest in my own marketing and do exactly what I think needs to be done - well, then it just feels like, what is the benefit of having a publisher?
Anna Todd
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Feels
Marketing
Benefit
Invest
Exactly
Exactly What
Publisher
Realized
Copy Quote
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.
Jim Harrison
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Author
War
Fun
Literature
Chapter
Fun Thing
Publisher
Recognized
Sent
Typed
Copy Quote
Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.
Leroy Neiman
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Artist
Copies
Exclusive
Paint
People
Style
Trying
Agent
Claim
Sell
Publisher
Representative
Copy Quote
It is important to send your work to as many publishers as possible. For every one publisher who may show interest in your work, there will be at least five who will reject you.
Ravi Subramanian
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Work Important Will
Publisher
Reject
Send
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