Quotes About Publishing

I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that, I thought I should name my own books.A Bit of Difference seems just right.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

Elevation Book Publishing drives each book to their highest peak and afford authors the opportunity to rise to their full potential. We create thriving partnerships.

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.

I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".

I wrote a book on cats. In retrospect, I should have used paper, cause chapter six got hit by a car.

A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version believes you were writing about theirs.

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers.

I want to write a book about shoes that's full of footnotes.

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

Actually I'd never planned a career in publishing, preferring the world of art.  There was always a sketch pad handy, though I soon learned that I was best with caricatures.  There was hardly a market for those unless one was a political cartoonist, an all-male world if there ever was one.  So it was publishing for me, at least for the time being.

Mr Earbrass escaped from Messrs Scuffle and Dustcough, who were most anxious to go into all the ramifications of a scheme for having his novels translated into Urdu, and went to call on a distant cousin.

'Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future.

America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.

When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much.