Publishers Quotes - Page 13

• Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

  Robert Barr

  Book, Men, Issues

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• I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.

  Stan Lee

  Two, Use, Littles

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• Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Dying, Ink, Guarantees

  "Big Sky Dilemma: Must Doctors Help Their Patients Die?". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.

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• Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

  Barry Eisler

  Transition, World, Paper

  "Paper Earthworks and Digital Tides" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

  Barry Eisler

  Book, Suffering, Transition

  "Paper Earthworks and Digital Tides" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

  Mark Twain

  Successful, Reflection, America

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.73, Univ of California Press

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• In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can always reach you. Do what's asked of you if your conscience can bear it.

  Mark Waid

  Running, Book, Editors

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• The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.

  Scott McCloud

  Book, Ideas, Giving

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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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• When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Children, Angel, Heaven

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• For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam.

  Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  Couple, Army, Thinking

  "Not so macho" by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2001.

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• Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

  Willa Cather

  Ruined

  Willa Cather, Marilee Lindemann (2008). “O Pioneers!”, p.172, Oxford University Press

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• I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Writing, Ignored

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• Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.

  Rose Macaulay

  Wells, Jolly, Courses

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• Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it suit the palate of the people? Alas, this palate is like a dumping ground; it relishes anything that needs no mental mastication. As a result, the mediocre, the ordinary, the commonplace represents the chief literary output.

  Emma Goldman

  Art, People, Creative

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.39, 谷月社

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• You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

  George Sand

  Stupid, Folks

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• The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon as a species of Wantley dragon, whose daily food was the brain and blood of hapless writers. ... On the other side, the author has been considered, like Shelley, 'an eternal child,' in all that relates to practical matters, and a terrible child at that, - incapable of comprehending details, and unreasoanably dissatisfied with results.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Children, War, Dragons

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• Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box.

  Jay Leno

  Genius, Warning, Next

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• a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Book, People, Literature

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers want to keep the momentum going. It's the kind of art I love to make, except that the time frame is really nutty.

  Carson Ellis

  Art, Book, Kids

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities.

  Eric Bell

  Opportunity, America, Enhancement

  "Eric Bell is Director of Marketing Services at Goss International". Interview with Charlotte Janischewski, www.wan-ifra.org. October 13, 2011.

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• Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher.

  Gisela Richter

  Understanding, Stimulus, Knows

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• Many persons erroneously suppose that an author has always on hand an unlimited number of her own books; or that the publisher will kindly give her as many as she can want for herself and friends. This is by no means the case.

  Eliza Leslie

  Book, Mean, Numbers

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies”, p.271

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• Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

  Anne Bernays

  Crazy, Drive Me Crazy

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• Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.

  Robert Caro

  Book, Thinking, Ties

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