Quotes with publishers

  • 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.

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  • George Ade After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Augusten Burroughs 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
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Buchi Emecheta As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alan Parsons I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Umberto Eco It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Belle Boyd My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • William Faulkner The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Eduardo Galeano The walls are the publishers of the poor.
    Eduardo Galeano
    Uruguayan journalist and writer (1940 - 2015)
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  • Beck There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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