Publishers Quotes - Page 5

• How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Editors, Charity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7132, Delphi Classics

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• I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Years, Names

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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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• Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

  J.A. Konrath

  Essentials, Reader

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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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• In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.

  Scott Pelley

  Editors, World, Today

  Scott Pelley's speech upon receiving the Fred Friendly journalism award at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, May 11, 2013.

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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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• 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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• Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist

  Michael Bolton

  Song, Giving Up, Home

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• The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

  George Orwell

  Book, Penguins, Splendid

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

  Maxim Gorky

  Air, Castles, Inns

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• Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

  Bergen Evans

  Leadership, College, Average

  Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf

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• I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, War, Mistake

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

  David Eddings

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. They'll be the richest, the most successful, the most connected, capable and influential among us. We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make.

  Pete Cashmore

  Successful, Connections, Looks

  "Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun" by Pete Cashmore, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2009.

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• 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

  Writing, Successful, Trying

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• But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

  Aaron Swartz

  Book, Needs, Heritage

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.26, The New Press

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• Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all of the above. a) it will keep your journalistic ‘muscle’ in practice. b) if you’re any good, you’ll get noticed. And bear in mind you can do these things at other places than conventional news organisations. Many businesses, NGOs, arts organisations, public bodies, universities, etc are now publishers of extremely high quality stuff. Good places to practise your craft before moving on.

  Alan Rusbridger

  Art, Moving, Writing

  "I am Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian - the news org that broke the story of NSA surveillance of US citizens - AMAA", rebrn.com. July 31, 2013.

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• I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

  Michael Connelly

  Believe, Book, Thinking

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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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• The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

  Jim Harrison

  Fun, War, Literature

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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