#publishing

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#generating #had #hollywood #houses #i

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#any #becomes #boarding #boarding school #certain

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#becoming #bottom #bottom line #break #day

Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars. ↗

— Tim Bray

#atom #basis #capture #down #good

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#commercial #discovered #i #liked #me

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#jurassic #kind #publishing

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood. ↗

— Mac Davis

#hollywood #i #publishing #publishing company #worked

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets. ↗

— Anita Diament

#already #any #before #book #came

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#connected #dynasty #even #family #go

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely. ↗

— Greg Egan

#book #boom #easier #edition #first