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We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.

Don Bluth

Artist, Space, Aces

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I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection letter". This is basically what a rejection letter is like: Hello Pathetic Moron, We read your book. It sucked. Don't send us another one. If you do, we will run over your grandmother with a bus. Don't Do It. From, Your Publisher

James Dashner

Running, Book, Grandmother

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Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy.

Richard North Patterson

Book, Writing, Simple

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If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

Stanley Unwin

Writing, Decision, Trying

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Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.

Paul Bowles

Writing, Thieves, Sides

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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, Conceited, Firsts

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Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

A. J. Liebling

Wine, Insulting, Bottles

A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.6, North Point Press

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I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.

Eric Sykes

Book, Said, Print

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Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

David Meerman Scott

Thinking, Media, Marketing

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I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

Kenneth Anger

People, Risk, May

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It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

Leslie Banks

Blessing, Answers, Submit

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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub-agents, the accountants, the libel lawyers, the departments of literature, the professors, the theses, the books of criticism, the reviewers, the book pages- all this vast and proliferating edifice is because of this small, patronized, put-down and underpaid person.'

Doris Lessing

Book, Writing, Criticism

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Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

P. D. James

Writing, Nurse, Sells

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The whole thing about bullying is: yes, the culture has to change. Yes, teens have the power to change it. It’s not going to happen overnight, but this is definitely something that I want to start motivating teens to do today." - Publisher Weekly

Susane Colasanti

Bullying, Culture, Teens

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Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

Horace

Book, Men, Poet

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People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

Roger McNamee

Music, Powerful, People

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Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

Erik Qualman

Powerful, Party, Successful

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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

Raymond Chandler

Time, Writing, People

"Writing a new Philip Marlowe: a question of dialogue, attitude and style" by John Banville, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2015.

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Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.

E. B. White

Writing, Elderly, Advice

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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Writing, Rejection, Suffering

"Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 68), 1862.

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I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!

J. K. Rowling

Book, Writing, Persistence

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As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.

Olivia Goldsmith

Writing, Tasks, Wheat

Olivia Goldsmith (2014). “The Bestseller”, p.146, Diversion Books

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No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

Jean M. Auel

Marketing, Done

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In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

Peter Sotos

Past, People, Marketing

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Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

Kinky Friedman

Writing, Hot, Rejected

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