#publishers

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

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

— Paulo Coelho

#free #publishers #sales #see #threatening

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

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#day #every #every day #fairly #inspired

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#genre #i #like #mainstream #me

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#books #box #box office #come #done

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#calling #describe #elsewhere #i #insist

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#books #collaboration #done #editors #even

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#any #because #fiction #i #i do