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I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. Robert Gottlieb
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In 1 percent of the cases we find authors have engaged in fraud.
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I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write. Mal Peet
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I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.
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I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love. Julia Glass
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This investment is about giving authors with small voices the loudspeakers they need to get their works published and distributed throughout the world,
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The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States. Stephen Kinzer
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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.
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Publishers have always had a hard time selling and marketing the single, short-form work. Amazon.com has created a new way for authors to get that kind of work out there, which is incredibly exciting. Daniel Wallace
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Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a library), most are forgotten, because they never deserved to be remembered Samuel Johnson
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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.
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As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say. Gregory Benford
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As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.
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A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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English authors are very content to write for a very small audience, and I think that shows. Nick Hornby
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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.
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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.
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We think most publishers and authors will choose to participate in the publisher program in order to introduce their work to countless readers around the world. But we know that not everyone agrees, and we want to do our best to respect their views too. So now, any and all copyright holders . . . can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library. Adam Smith
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We count on a combination of user reviews and the author-provided summary and bio to give the browsing customer information to make a decision. But in the future, we want to provide a way for users to preview the books and implement a forum where consumers can query the authors and debate.
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Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few. Malorie Blackman
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We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
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Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Janet Fitch
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To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing. Sophie Kinsella
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I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores. Michael A. Stackpole
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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. Molly Antopol
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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.
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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.
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Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
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I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris. Chris Van Allsburg