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Taiye Selasi

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

– Taiye Selasi

Sylvia Day

The publishing industry provides a viable channel which enables a wide distribution of books that we’re not seeing in any other way. Unfortunately, self-publishing doesn’t have that.

– Sylvia Day

Sylvia Day

I love digital books. And I actually started digital-first publishing back in 2005.

– Sylvia Day

Susie Bright

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

– Susie Bright

Steven Curtis Chapman

I’ve been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

– Steven Curtis Chapman

Steve Martin

I don’t think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You’re always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it’ll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it’s always meant to be something. So, to me, there’s no practicing; there’s only editing and publishing or not publishing.

– Steve Martin

Stephenie Meyer

What’s funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

– Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

– Stephenie Meyer

Stanley Schmidt

Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing.

– Stanley Schmidt

Sonny Mehta

It seems the world of book publishing is constantly changing. Whether it was the rise of chain stores or their decline, or the digital revolution… fortunately, we have been able not only to adapt but to thrive.

– Sonny Mehta

Sonny Mehta

The biggest kick is reading something new and exciting and then getting other people to share your enthusiasm. Beyond all the cant and hypocrisy in publishing, that’s what it’s all about.

– Sonny Mehta

Sonny Mehta

A good part of the work is just reading a manuscript and coming to the office. I can’t imagine wanting to even read an article about book publishing.

– Sonny Mehta

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