Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusias...
If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.
Hollywood loves pre-validation. Even if someone has a property that was first published as a comic book that sold only 5,000 copies, for Hollywood, that is a stamp of approval. 'Oh, it was already published in another medium? Must be good!' They get ...
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
What the podcast novelists do isn't all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.
In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.
Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting for entirely new forms of publishing to develop.
The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.
Loneliness is remedied at times with the company of a friend and at other times with the company of oneself.
Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.
Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.
I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.
It's always push and pull with a record company.
If books are not good company, where shall I find it?
Companies don't succeed, people do. Companies don't fail, people do.
I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.
I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.
Good taste is as tiring as good company.
