#publishers

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#authors #business #contracts #publishers #publishing

We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it. ↗

— Allen Lane

#publishers #intelligence

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

— Piers Anthony

#dealing #i #least #like #merit

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#agents #allow #being #discouraged #either

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#book #came #diaries #fact #george

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. ↗

— Lee Child

#idiot #job #keep #long #plan

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#free #publishers #sales #see #threatening

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#butchers #fear #irrational #life #policemen

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#away #awful #direction #door #editors

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into. ↗

— Terri Windling

#bit #business #called #fantasy #fiction