#publishers

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. ↗

— John Lennon

#everybody #only #own #people #possession

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#concept #generally #more #poor #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

#books #does #example #for example #good

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up. ↗

— Denis Norden

#added #amount #certain #comedians #comedy

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

#blown #blown away #books #distribution #fears

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

#always #any #bunch #creation #generally

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#been #believed #case #every #extremely

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#authors #business #contracts #publishers #publishing

We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it. ↗

— Allen Lane

#publishers #intelligence

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#dealing #i #least #like #merit