#publish

According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it. ↗

— Jay Leno

#bill #bill clinton #book #clinton #duh

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. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#big #did #i #interviews #look

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#felt #finished #had #hard #i

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ↗

— Don Marquis

#canyon #down #dropping #echo #grand

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published. ↗

— Jon McGregor

#had #i #just #last #novel

Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing. ↗

— Jon McGregor

#book #embarrassing #had #i #now

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

#barnes #decorate #exceptions #faces #few

I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#form #i #i love #ideal #love

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates. ↗

— Michael Musto

#been #book #column #compilation #could

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#myth #people #publishers #read #things