Publisher Quotes - page 4

I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing, segmenting etc., can be done by your publisher, not you. (Ashwin Sanghi)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? View quote
Dorothy Fields
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. View quote
E. Howard Hunt
And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there. View quote
Ellen Hopkins
I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and the organizers invited me and it seemed silly not to go, especially for a relatively unknown first-time author. This is just not my cup of tea; the fewer such events I do on an annual basis, the happier I feel. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN. View quote
Gregg Easterbrook
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women. View quote
Jami Attenberg
While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area. View quote
Jerry B. Jenkins
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher. View quote
Kara DioGuardi
I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better. View quote
Katharine Weymouth
Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not. (LeRoy Neiman)
The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher. View quote
Eric Brown
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. View quote
Marc Davis
Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make. View quote
Nick Bantock
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity. View quote
Pete Hegseth
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. View quote
Rick Moody
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. View quote
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. View quote
Robert Scheer
You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher. View quote
Richard Curtis
I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five! View quote
Sally Hawkins
Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything. (Steven Amsterdam)
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him. View quote
Alain de Botton
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. View quote
Maxim Gorky
I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great. View quote
James Frey