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«The walls are the publishers of the poor»
Author: Eduardo Galeano
| Keywords:
publishers
«The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, convince, degrees, durable, investment, investments, in writing, misunderstand, most-valuable, on the way, paid off, pays, pay off, publisher, publishers, sneer, sneered, sneering, sneers, writes, write off, writing style
«Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
criminal, defendant, defendants, dollar, felony, Journalists, keenly, notoriously, numbers, publishers, slothful, unlike
«The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
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agent, agents, agreeing, cartoonist, cartoonists, literary, literary agent, lunatic, manuscript, manuscripts, newspapers, novelist, obviously, ownership, publisher, publishers, rave, raved, raves, raving, ravings, Raving Lunatic, reprint, split, strip, syndicate, The Agent, virtually
«Publishers are demons, there's no doubt about it.»
«The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
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Balzac, homer, new to, one thousand, publishers, Two thousand
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