Quotes of: Publishing-house Keyword

Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.

Mandorla

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

Piers Anthony

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

Paul Harding

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Paul Johnson

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Peter Shaffer

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

Ruth Gordon

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

Sean Parker

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

Tibor Fischer

I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

Toyin Odutola

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

Tom Stoppard

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

Kent Haruf

I feel like a nineteen forties teenager at a Frank Sinatra concert! (On finally being published)

Katrina D. Miller

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Kenneth L. Pike

Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website.

Mike McCue

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

Michelle M. Pillow

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

Mattie Stepanek

Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.

Nick Denton

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

Thomas Wolfe

Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.

Anthony Horowitz

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.

Ma Jian

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

John Lescroart