publishing

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there__ no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he__ lying, and you__e being taken.

it takes a village to build success in publishing a book - it takes friends that are willing to help - it takes hours upon hours of no's to get to a yes, it takes many twists and turns with seemingly no end to the detours, it takes courage to face the unknowns - it takes and it takes and it takes - But then, like a flower opening its blossom - it gives.........

Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.

The world__ greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

Don__ let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!

By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.

But just understand the difference between a man like Reardon and a man like me. He is the old type of unpractical artist; I am the literary man of 1882. He won't make concessions, or rather, he can't make them; he can't supply the market. I--well, you may say that at present, I do nothing; but that's a great mistake, I am learning my business. Literature nowadays is a trade. Putting aside men of genius, who may succeed by mere cosmic force, your successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets; when one kind of goods begins to go off slackly, he is ready with something new and appetising. He knows perfectly all the possible sources of income. Whatever he has to sell, he'll get payment for it from all sorts of various quarters; none of your unpractical selling for a lump sum to a middleman who will make six distinct profits.

A good book is not the same as a successful one.

Publishers are businesses and I don__ blame them for that. If they didn__ make money by publishing books, there wouldn__ be any books.

Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book__ publisher.

A vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his mind__ eye, his mother at a desk, writing in her journal, with hazy sunlight streaming through the morning windows. The woman inhabited a world he had once thought his own _ a world of publishers and reliable suppliers. A London that was confident and competent amid its grey, puddle-strewn streets.

Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We're sorry, but no... and then more beautiful things. It's a shit sandwich with branston pickle and melted gouda.I read it out loud to the kids. I stick it to the fridge with the others. Some writers do that because it turns their crank to have a Wall of Publishers Who Passed And Will Someday Regret It. I don't. Each one is, really and truly, a gift. We look at them and the boys and I talk about rejection, all kinds of it. Creative, karmic, romantic. Nothing works out until something does.

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.