Peter Sotos Quotes

• If you look at the publishers I’ve worked with, generally, they’re a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I’ve worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.

  Peter Sotos

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Intelligent, Ideas

• And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

  Peter Sotos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ideas, Issues

• Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I’m a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

  Peter Sotos

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Ideas, Imagination

• I don’t publish the books to make money, not at all.

  Peter Sotos

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Publish

• I don’t sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

  Peter Sotos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problem

• I’m not trying to do conceptual art.

  Peter Sotos

  Topics in Art

• Further, I’m obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

  Peter Sotos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language

• 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

  Topics in Life, Work

  Tags in People, Believe

• But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

  Peter Sotos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writers And Writing

• Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

  Peter Sotos

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Problems

• Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

  Peter Sotos

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Think

• The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady’s Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady’s life – parents of victims, police, Brady himself.

  Peter Sotos

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Average, Chance

Peter Sotos (12)

Birth:	17th April, 1960
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Writer

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