Famous Quotes & Sayings

Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.

Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.

This investment is about giving authors with small voices the loudspeakers they need to get their works published and distributed throughout the world,

A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.

A lot of authors get by on the bits of money they get from various users of their work, and the Internet doesn't change all of that.

Also, musicians and authors will go outside of the major industries to speak directly to consumers. That's starting to be a small trend now, but we see that becoming a very major trend within about two years.

This is a terrific acquisition for Penguin. The two businesses complement each other extremely well in terms of both authors and people, and will create great opportunities for the future. It is a marvelous way to start at Penguin.

There's a lot of great authors out there, and we're highlighting them at this festival. There may be a difference of opinion on some of the president's policies, and that's their right to express those opinions.

Cory Doctorow

Blogs encourage their authors to publish in small, partially formed chunks,

Every festival is new, and everyone has gotten better. We've been able to do a better job of connecting students with wonderful authors from all over.

The most insignificant authors have at least this similarity to the Author of the Heavens and the Earth: that after a days work is done, they have a habit of saying to themselves, "And behold, what he made was good.

Mal Peet

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

The single thing the journals can do is make the authors visibly responsible for the work because, in the end, the editors can't be there. Credit and blame go together.

A vibrant book festival with internationally renowned authors helps to inspire children and fosters a love of reading. When children and young adults have the opportunity to interact with authors, it's just magical!

Authors are easy to get on with - if you're fond of children.

Michael A. Stackpole

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.

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.

Neil Gaiman

Authors know that you should never really write a funny book because funny books do not get awards. Comic novels will not get awards.

Helen Oyeyemi

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

Michael A. Stackpole

I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.

Molly Antopol

I've been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first began trying to write stories. Many of the authors whose work I cherish the most were people I first learned about through The O. Henry Prize Stories - and then I'd go search for their books.

Nick Hornby

I've been very lucky with all my adaptations - they were made by intelligent people who liked the books, and I know that not all authors feel this way.

Robin Wasserman

I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.

Indeed, it's not feasible to do the sort of thorough fact-checking that some books may require, in terms of both money and time. We do go back to authors over and over again, getting them to confirm facts and questioning the veracity of their stories, but sometimes it's just not possible.

I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.

The authors of this report had the chance to establish this at first hand by interviewing union representatives but failed to do so. It is not hard to see why the report lacks balance and objectivity.

The authors of this report explain why the previous studies have been inconsistent and really make a compelling case.

The authors didn't tie this increase to the plants, nor do we. Our concern is with the uncertainty of what's happening where; this kind of stuff can't be taken off the table.

William Collins

Not to say that authors are all such sourpusses, but you meet the author in the best possible way, on the written page. I am at my best there, more patient, more thoughtful.

It's sort of like an unlimited buffet but you have to limit yourself. What the trade show allows you to do is compress meeting with sales reps and authors into a couple of days.

It's not for third parties to come in and digitize copyrighted works of 10s of thousands of authors and decide what they'll do with it.

The Big Moo is a book that's not just about breaking all the rules -- it's about changing the game entirely. We want to help people start a movement in their organization -- to stop trying to be perfect and start being remarkable. The goal is to make the book's wisdom, its practical application, its fun, and its authors accessible, while raising millions for charity.

Patricia Cornwell

It's criminal if successful authors don't support literacy. I challenge them all to write a check.