#publishers

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. ↗

— George Ade

#being #decided #down #had #numerous

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#been #books #down #exception #however

But really it says everything that’s wrong about the publishing industry, that a quarter of a million people bought and read a sex and shopping novel that wasn’t even written by one of those footballer girlfriends, and yet most of the shortlisted titles on the Orange Prize, which is an award for women writers, don’t even sell ten thousand copies. It’s just not right. ↗

— Sarra Manning

#publishers #love

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. ↗

— David Baldacci

#about #anything #expectations #i #much

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#author #becomes #been #book #dead

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#few #ground #ground zero #most #north

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on. ↗

— Patrick White

#american #city #down #every #expecting

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#money #publishers #publishing #money

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#storytelling #nature

There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

#city #down #eleven #finally #five