Gollancz Publishers Quotes

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting. ~ Victor Gollancz

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is. ~ James Purdy

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not. ~ Dean Koontz

The wonder is not that there should be obstacles and sufferings in this world, but that there should be law and order, beauty and joy, goodness and love. The idea of God that humans have in their being is the wonder of all wonders. They have felt in the depths of their lives that what appears as imperfect is the manifestation of the perfect; just as a person who has an ear for music realized the perfection of a song, while in fact he or she is only listening to a succession of notes. ~ Victor Gollancz

I 1wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. ~ Thomas Nelson Publishers

Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell. ~ Michael A. Stackpole

Keep a close watch on yourself and on your teaching. Stay true to what is right. 1 TIMOTHY 4:16 NLT ~ Bethany House Publishers

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers. ~ Richard Curtis

...graced by some delicate, perceptive and fine-boned writing, is at the heart of the book, and Creel gets it all just right. ~ Publishers Weekly

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. ~ Laurence J. Peter

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. ~ Fay Weldon

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. ~ Christopher Hitchens

You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike. ~ George Sand

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things. ~ Umberto Eco

Dear God, there is never a reason for me to be lonely or afraid, because you are my great and present defender. Thank you. Amen. ~ Bethany House Publishers

Dear God, I praise you for turning my seeds of hope into a fantastic harvest of blessings. Help me tell others of your excellent gifts. Amen. ~ Bethany House Publishers

Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring. ~ Michael Dirda

The literary publishers were the Lords of Culture, the master parasites sitting on top of this swarming dunghill. ~ Jonathan Galassi

Be sure that your reward systems actually reward what you say you value. Many organizations preach cooperative effort but reward only individual effort - ~ Hawthorne Publishers

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Dear God, you really do deserve my thanksgiving and praise. You are worthy of honor and glory. May your name be lifted high forever. Amen. ~ Bethany House Publishers

101 Reasons why its great to be a woman:
We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition. ~ Summersdale Publishers

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes. ~ Willa Cather

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know. ~ Henry David Thoreau

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

I have female friends that get mails from publishers that read 'Hey. I heard you write about sex. This is a very popular topic now'. ~ Martijn Benders

The publishers are idiots or criminals ~ Wolfgang Reisig

My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 27 For ~ Thomas Nelson Publishers

After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity. ~ George Ade

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers. ~ Marco Arment

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers. ~ Mario Benedetti

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too. ~ Mark Millar

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear. ~ Barry Eisler

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it. ~ Rose Macaulay

Only if a Chinaman presents proof of affiliation with the West, has Western patrons vouch for him, and writes in 'pure' English, may he present his 'submission' to Western publishers. ~ Thorsten J. Pattberg

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

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers. ~ Thomas M. Disch

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that. ~ Dean Koontz

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen. ~ Dean Koontz

Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material. ~ Rigoberto Gonzalez

- Amy said that would be an imprudent expense; but as soon as he had got a good price for a book. Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books! ~ George Gissing

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers. ~ Doris Lessing

I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are still my publishers and are like my musical family, my second family - they took me in and taught me what a good song is. ~ Lights

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. ~ David Baldacci

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers. ~ Alma Gluck

I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars. ~ Tony Ross

Companies with aspirations to be larger publishers - Kabam, Kixeye, even Zynga - are moving aggressively off the Facebook platform to mobile and the open Web. Publishers aren't convinced that the costs of being on Facebook are worth it. ~ Mitch Lasky

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

Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption. ~ Warren Murphy

the government was in danger of being overthrown. If it had succeeded, it would have earned the dubious distinction of being the very first armed takeover of an elected government in an ex-British colony in the West Indies. ~ MiddleRoad Publishers

Hitchcock's debut novel introduces 14-year-old Jessie Pearl, who endures more than her fair share of hardships, beginning with the death of her mother. Opening in 1922, the story follows the daily activities on the family's North Carolina tobacco farm. ...Hitchcock's story is gently and lovingly written, with elements drawn from her own family history. Its detailed honesty about the particular struggles of the period, especially for strong women (Maude, a no-nonsense midwife, is particularly memorable), is significant.
- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ~ Publishers Weekly

Each of us has a vulnerability like Edmund's that Satan is eager to exploit. It may be something addictive like drugs or alcohol, or it may be something seemingly harmless and perhaps even good like food, friendship, or work. ~ Discovery House Publishers

Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject. ~ E.B. White

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book. ~ Robert Barr

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers. ~ James J. Kilpatrick

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down. ~ Richard Curtis

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

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure? ~ Samuel Beckett

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

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it. ~ Alan Lightman

Writers pay a lot of attention to wordage, because some publishers seem to care more about length than about quality and will automatically reject novels that don't fit their narrow standards of length - or will chop out extra wordage to make a novel fit. ~ Piers Anthony

As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're going to expect me to say that I would love to see more books by Native American authors and African-American authors and Arab-American authors. But when a teacher or librarian says this to publishers, it can have a profound effect. ~ Pat Mora

This series opener offers an intriguing premise born from the bloody mythology of Central America…fans of mythology-driven stories will appreciate Dela's integration of Mayan/Aztec legends into an otherwise typical supernatural romance. ~ BookLife-Publisher's Weekly)

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work. ~ Tanith Lee

It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It happened when publishers and editors cut back on their drinking. If there is one national flower in book publishing, it is the martini. ~ Al Silverman

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers. ~ Jess Walter

It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house. ~ Jerry Spinelli

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates. ~ Gene Stratton-Porter

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name. ~ Gerard Way

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there. ~ Joe R. Lansdale

According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it. ~ Jay Leno

Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn't do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that. ~ Seth

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

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

Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half. ~ Dan DeCarlo

You have to go into rehab after doing a David Walliams book. David is such an important man; publishers rate him very, very highly, His books usually go straight to the bestseller number one spot on the day of publication. He is a hugely important writer as far as HarperCollins, his publishers, are concerned. ~ Tony Ross

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies. ~ Jack Canfield

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers. ~ C.S. Forester

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

I think it's important to present yourself as a professional. While writing a good book is critical, nothing will cancel that out faster than behaving like an amateur. I cringe every time I see an author arguing with a reader who left a poor review, or fighting with their friends on Facebook … or publicly bashing their agents or publishers. ~ Alistair Cross

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people. ~ Kenneth Anger

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home. ~ Paul Kane

I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. ~ Matt Groening

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door. ~ Walter Jon Williams

After His resurrection, Jesus asked Peter this personal and probing question: "Do you love Me more than these?" (John 21:15). Many have speculated as to what Jesus meant by the word "these," but it's probably better that we don't know. It allows each of us to personalize the question and ask ourselves, "What do I love more than Jesus? ~ Discovery House Publishers

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books. ~ Margaret Mahy

I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment. ~ Karen Thompson Walker

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that. ~ Otis Blackwell

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

Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print", and hard-to-find books can be easily available. So far, the only limitation seems to be finding a way for the writer to be paid. ~ Kate Grenville

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

I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents. I think it wouldn't be great for me because all I'd really want to talk about it music and I'd rather just play it. ~ Natalie Merchant

I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon. ~ Amanda McKittrick Ros

We're in the media business today. We're in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that's where we make our money. We sell book launch packages to authors and publishers and really help accelerate, build that early buzz that a book needs to succeed when it launches and accelerate that growth through ads on the site. ~ Otis Chandler

Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box. ~ Jay Leno

Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am. ~ Charles Frazier

As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors. ~ Judith Thurman

For us, launching new systems is about bringing new consumer experiences to the marketplace and we're doing that with Nintendo land and third-party publishers are doing it with games like ZombiU. For us, now is the right time to launch new hardware. ~ Reggie Fils-Aime