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When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.
Maxine Hong Kingston
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For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
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It takes a long time to publish a book.


Kenneth Koch
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With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five.


Marissa Moss
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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.


Philip Roth
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.


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If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.


Annie Dillard
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If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
Sidney Sheldon
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I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.


Adrian Tomine
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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
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I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers.


Susan Vreeland
I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'
Darren Shan
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I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them.
Denis Dutton
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I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
Pankaj Mishra
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.


Daniel Clowes
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When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.


Michael Korda
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.


Irwin Shaw