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We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that. — Trip Adler

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town. — Jeff Lindsay

You know what a publisher is? He's a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he's able to appropriate other people's talents. — Joel Dicker

As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher. — W. Terry Whalin

A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. — Madeleine L'Engle

As a publisher, you should decide what content is free and what you'd pay for. You have to get the packaging right, but people will pay for content. — Mike McCue

No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them. — Dave Sim

If I was a father, and my son told me he wanted to go out and be a publisher, I'd say, 'Go get a job.' — Richard Chizmar

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. — Marshall McLuhan

Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything. — Steven Amsterdam

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell. — Paul Johnson

No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. — Robert Gottlieb

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher. — Eric Brown

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised. — Mark Millar

I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me — J.K. Rowling

No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher — Oscar Wilde

The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency. — Harold Holzer

I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher. — Philip Reeve

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

It's very hard to get one publisher to accept an author going over to the other author's company to collaborate. — Marcia Muller

We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop. — Barry Diller

When I'm not writing or working on books as a publisher, I'm doing things that make me happy. One is skiing with my kids and husband. I love sports. — Andrea Davis Pinkney

ANDERSONVILLE DIARY JOHN H. RANSOM, LATE FIRST SERGEANT NINTH MICH. CAV., AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER, 1881 — John L. Ransom

My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India. — Manoj Bhargava

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price. — J.A. Konrath

My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd. — Chuck Palahniuk

Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally. — Dietrich Mateschitz

What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style. — Russell Smith

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

He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be. — Stacy Schiff

Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher. — Gisela Richter

I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.' — Darren Shan

Today, however, every company has become a de facto publisher, creating content that's valued by those they want to reach. — Ann Handley

I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables. — Stan Lee

(even though, technically, Karanuk's previous publisher was supposed to get an exclusive — Debra Ginsberg

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. — Maxim Gorky

Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of Grace' to the publisher! — Mary Doria Russell

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. — Oscar Wilde

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher. — Steve Case

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial. — Hoagy Carmichael

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus. — Austin O'Malley

No author is a man of genius to his publisher. — Heinrich Heine

Finding an Agent is not a problem.
Finding a publisher is not a problem.
Finding readers now that's a problem. — Roy A. Higgins

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur - or APE. — Guy Kawasaki

My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there. — Patrick DeWitt

People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher. — Roger McNamee

I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better. — Katharine Weymouth

Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher. — Nancy Holmes

As the publisher of FSG and the custodian of its legacy, I have an interested insider's view. — Jonathan Galassi

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Publisher: Acte Sud/ L'Orient des livres — Toufic Youssef Aouad

The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper. — Geoffrey Faber

Every small business has to become a publisher - a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories. — Jim Blasingame

Where the writing takes place doesn't matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author. — Fennel Hudson

Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.' — Alex Gibney

Being a bestselling author is a wonderful feeling. My publisher loves me (almost unconditionally). My contracts — Ashwin Sanghi

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book. — Colm Toibin

If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Stanley Unwin

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. — V.S. Naipaul

Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player. — Nick Harkaway

Think like a publisher, not a marketer. — David Meerman Scott

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance. — Mark Millar

Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher. — Ljupka Cvetanova

A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work. — Jonathan Galassi

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

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity. — Pete Hegseth

An author's strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher's commitment to it. — Sterling Lord

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. — Mitch Albom

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

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. — Ted Turner

I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself. — John Boyne

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? — Dorothy Fields

Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books. — Johnny Rich

Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts. — Rayne Hall

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. — George Orwell

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN. — Gregg Easterbrook

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. — Arthur Koestler

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts. — Dan Rather

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

I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that. — Alan Furst

I am my brain's publisher. — Philippe Starck

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value. — Richard Laymon

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm! — Dick Bruna

Outside of my work as a comic book creator and co-publisher, I'm an avid gamer. — Jim Lee

No, my publisher has always done the marketing. — Jean M. Auel

If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book. — Meg Wolitzer

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

When asked by her publisher why her work had not been submitted while on her honeymoon: I've been too fucking busy or vice versa — Dorothy Parker

The newspaper publisher who hangs around clubs or becomes a crony to sundry businessmen cannot run a good newspaper. — Dennis McDougal

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. — Andrea Davis Pinkney

As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers. — Jason Calacanis

Of the Harvard Law Review. In the wake of some modest publicity, I received an advance from a publisher and went — Barack Obama

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all. — Alexander McCall Smith

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry. — Alexei Maxim Russell

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created. — Jonathan Galassi

It's really inspiring to know that your publisher is so behind you. It makes you want to put forth your best work. — Eric Wight

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today. — Scott Pelley

(You wouldn't be reading this book if I hadn't convinced my publisher that I was enough of a pseudo-extrovert to promote it.) — Susan Cain

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea. — William Peter Blatty

When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success. — Anita Elberse

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for Â£50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' — Tom Stoppard