#publishers

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

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

— Paulo Coelho

#free #publishers #sales #see #threatening

I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. ↗

— Matt Groening

#comic strips #daily #going #i #i think

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

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

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#because #essential #manuscripts #publishers #read

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

— Umberto Eco

#myth #people #publishers #read #things

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

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence. ↗

— Mark Millar

#books #coincidence #fact #fantastic #feed

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too. ↗

— Mark Millar

#books #different #had #publishers #really