Quotes of: Publishing-company Keyword

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Tom Robbins

I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.

Tony Ross

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

Taiye Selasi

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.

Thomas Sowell

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

Louise Brown

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

Lauren Oliver

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

Margaret Atwood

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'

Martin Amis

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

Michael Connelly

Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world.

Molly Friedenfeld

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

Mark Crispin Miller

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

Mark Millar

I think the screen size chosen for the iPad is perfect for publishers to render content beautifully, for games to be played.

Mike McCue

It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

Randy Schekman

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.

Robert Scheer

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

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

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.

Nell Freudenberger

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

Alonzo Church

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

Walter Mosley

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

Jennifer Gilmore