Publishers Quotes - Page 17

• No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

  David Halberstam

  America, Excellence, Quality

  David Halberstam (2012). “The Powers That Be”, p.538, Open Road Media

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• Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

  Jack Canfield

  Book, Soul, Soup

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• The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

  Eubie Blake

  Song, Mistake, Believe

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• My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Character, Voice, Creating

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• Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.

  Eden Robinson

  Romance, Serious, Stories

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might - why my publisher would publish this book [You belong to the universe] about it long after he's dead and irrelevant by many standards has to do with the fact that he was in a sense coming up with this job for himself that is the job that we now refer to when we speak about world change.

  Jonathon Keats

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In 1925 - 27 the revolution in China was destroyed by the false revolutionary strategy of the Stalinist faction. To this last question I consecrate my book, Problems of the Chinese Revolution (issued by the Pioneer Publishers, New York 1932).

  Leon Trotsky

  New York, Book, Chinese Revolution

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• I read whatever the publisher sends me.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• The States has more publishers and a wider range of aesthetics but so much more competition - the amount of writers vying for the same spot as you is staggering. I think they're different challenges, but equally frustrating when you're trying to get your foot in the door.

  Eden Robinson

  Thinking, Feet, Doors

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You have more situations where you take the offer or don't get published or you learn to self-publish.

  Eden Robinson

  Mean, Self, Situation

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• [Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Real, Greed, Lists

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• The one difference between comics and, say, cinema or prose, is that you've only got so many pages, and publishers will work to a set page count. So you have to work out how many pages you actually have and how much to allow for each story.

  Leah Moore

  Differences, Work Out, Pages

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on it. I signed off in a second. "You bet that anyone can use this. I don't care. You can use it for anything." If it is to inspire people in the positive sense.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, People, Inspire

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

  Scott McClanahan

  People, Trying, Way

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• [With "Summer Sisters" the publisher] sent me on a big book tour. And it was the most wonderful professional experience of my life. I mean it was like Kleenex on every table wherever I was, friends patting friends on the back and they'd cry and I'd cry.

  Judy Blume

  Summer, Book, Mean

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• [We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and composer and arranger. There's a lot of ways you can make a contribution.

  Jon Gordon

  Player, Needs, Way

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• Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received one billion rejections, until I was fortunate enough to be matched up with the Permanent Press.

  Liza Campbell

  Rejection, Agents, Wonderful

  Source: newwest.net

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• The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they are doing a disservice to those authors. If they didn't dress them as clones but did something different, then those authors could be pioneering in a different sense.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dressing Up, Dresses, Different

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• My British publisher has this independent press. It's pretty small; they actually won last year. And she's got this great energy, and she's fiercely independent, and you know this book was a hard sell. No one wanted to buy this book. But she did, and so it's paid off for her, I hope.

  Paul Beatty

  Book, Independent, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.

  Gene Weingarten

  Believe, Thinking, Matter

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.

  William Gurstelle

  Editors, Track, Different

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• We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read them, but I do glance through some of them, and some people dont need to be writing, they have something else.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, People, Needs

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us.

  Judy Blume

  Mother, Nice, House

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

  Parker Posey

  Book, Looks, Next

  Source: www.elle.com

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• WikiLeaks has been a very strong proponent of the Freedom of Information Act. This is probably, actually, if you think about it, probably against our interests as - as a publisher. But we believe that people have the right to know true information about what their government is doing.

  Julian Assange

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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