Publisher Quotes

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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

(February 2006) Look at what happened to James Frey in the last two weeks. That`s a great book and so is the follow-up book. And just because his publisher chose to say that these were memoirs, it took it out of being a work of fiction, a great work of fiction and very well-written to this guy having to go be sucker punched on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1986) by one of the most powerful women in television just to grind her own ax about it. Hey Oprah, you had President (Bill Clinton) on your show and if this prick didn`t lie about a couple of things I`m going to set myself on fire right now. James Frey is a writer, okay? He can write whatever he wants. It`s fiction, and it`s just hard, it`s just shameful how he was treated in some of these things. It`s just shameful and it`s just not fair and not right . . .

- Bruce Willis

I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.

- Marc Davis

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

- Robert Scheer

The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.

- Robert Scheer

And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He`s an accountant from Chicago, doesn`t know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column.

- Robert Scheer

I`m singing the music publisher`s theme song - it ain`t a commercial.

- Hoagy Carmichael

(Ms. Green, 37, has published six other books, which are targeted at female readers and have together sold more than a million copies, according to her publisher. She and her husband, bank executive David Burke, bought a 20-acre property for $4.5 million in nearby Litchfield County, Conn., which is their main home.) My dream has always been to raise my kids on a farm, ... Plus the peace and quiet enables me to be far more creative.

- Jane Green

Authors change publishers because it`s like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

- Jackie Collins

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

- Jackie Collins

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

- Jackie Collins

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can`t write it beforehand, because I don`t know what the book`s about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

- Jackie Collins

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn`t, maybe you need a different publisher.

- Dean Koontz

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

- Richard Curtis

Not only was I the artist, publisher, songwriter and producer, I was also the singer, ... For every three cents Elvis made on a record, I made 45 cents.

- Andy Anderson

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody`s a publisher.

- Eric Brown

The prizes have some credibility, of course. And they do good work for the writer and for the publisher, by winnowing one book out of the pack.

- Russell Banks

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

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers` and the nation`s perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher`s choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.

- Daniel Okrent

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I`d devised.

- Mark Millar

I didn`t want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

- Mark Millar

I said I would never self publish, but then I realized getting a traditional publisher or agent is a long process,

- Laura Evans

I don`t know about "any" publisher. But Katharine Graham and I had been working together for almost seven years and we had come to trust each other.

- Ben Bradlee

I can tell you that he really stepped up to community responsibility at a time that Rochester really needed a publisher to not just be in Rochester but to be of Rochester.

- David Mack

One of my concerns is that writers will begin to feel the censor on their backs, and we won`t get their very best. Instead their fear, or the fear imposed by the publisher, will limit them. When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor, or the reviewer, or anyone but my characters and their story.

- Judy Blume

I didn`t view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

- Gregg Easterbrook

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

I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency.

- E. Howard Hunt

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.

- Rick Moody

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

- Orhan Pamuk

The first edition was 100,000 copies, a huge economic risk for the publisher. I was quite proud of the fact that the book was not banned or censored.

- Orhan Pamuk

`World Almanac` Publisher Makes a Life Compiling Trivia.

- Ken Park

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

- Patrick White

The secret of our success is that we are not a clone of the U.S. edition. We let the local publisher and editor interpret the brand with a local voice.

- George Green

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife`s money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

- Jonathan Coe

To think that we as a publisher (i.e. people who have never actually MADE a game) can have a realistic impact on a project that a team of experts is slaving away on full time for 2 years is a bit arrogant.

- Mike Wilson

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.

- Alex Urquhart

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

- Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby

This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.

- Andre Artero

There have always been a lot of exclusive licenses and sometimes the publisher cuts some corners or gets a bit lazy and the quality goes down.

- Andrew Hacker

From the publisher`s point of view, there are lots of issues because students buy books and sell them back. Future students might only buy the used textbooks.

- Art Sathoff