I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.
Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
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.
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.
