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• When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, ‘The Thomas Berryman Number’, and it was turned down by, I don’t know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.

  James Patterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Publishers, Mystery

• Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Squeezed, Publishers

• Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It’s an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.

  John Hodgman

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  Tags in Publishers, Common

• People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don’t have to keep using them.

  Amanda Hocking

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Publishers, Using

• Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.

  Mark Helprin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Publishers, Percent

• I don’t tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.

  Joanne Harris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Publishers, Hesitant

• Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  James Surowiecki

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  Tags in Publishers, Depress

• My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

  Wilbur Smith

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  Tags in Eminent, Publishers

• I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they’d take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.

  Ali Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ill, Publishers

• After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

  George Ade

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  Tags in Publishers, Posterity, Numerous, Decided, Write, After, Had, Down, Turned, Being, Writing

• The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

  Denis Mostyn Norden

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Publishers

• There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

  Dan DeCarlo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Publishers

• Textbook publishers don’t even bother to advertise at their conventions.

  Peter Brimelow

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  Tags in Publishers, Publishing

• 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

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  Tags in Publishers, Middleman

• 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

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  Tags in Agent, Publishers

• The walls are the publishers of the poor.

  Eduardo Galeano

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  Tags in Publishers

• The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine.

  Edward W. Bok

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Magazine, Publishers, United States

• As a writer, you can’t allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forward, Publishers, Yourself

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

  Eric Brown

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  Tags in Professionals, Publishers

• My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

  A. N. Wilson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Publishers, Books, Write