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It has been our experience that American houses insist on very comprehensive editing; that English houses as a rule require little or none and are inclined to go along with the author's script almost without query. The Canadian practice is just what you would expect--a middle-of-the-road course. We think the Americans edit too heavily and interfere with the author's rights. We think that the English publishers don't take enough editorial responsibility. Naturally, then, we consider our editing to be just about perfect. There's no doubt about it, we Canadians are a superior breed! (in a letter to author Margaret Laurence, dated May, 1960)


Jack McClelland


#editing #humor #letters #publishing #writing

To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.


Gerard de Marigny


#self-publishing #writing #writing-advice #writing-as-a-profession #inspirational

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.


William Nicholson


#after #among #another #because #business

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.


Larry Niven


#buy #five #got #i #kicking

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.


Bill O'Reilly


#book #every #mistakes #never #published

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.


Daniel Okrent


#columns #editorial #expressed #freedom #given

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.


Orhan Pamuk


#familiar #first #form #had #publisher

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.


Charles Caleb Colton


#being #difficulties #find #get #great

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


Michael Connelly


#been #believe #book #i #me

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.


Richard Curtis


#directly #down #had #i #only






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