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I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support. -- Jasmine Cresswell
I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house. -- Vince Flynn
I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house. -- J. Tillman
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house. -- Anna Chlumsky
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. -- Dave Eggers
What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time. -- Robert Gottlieb
There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea. -- Fredrik Bajer
I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it. -- Otis Blackwell
Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way. -- Edan Lepucki
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
He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement. -- Shimon Peres
There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen. The way contracts work, if you leave one publishing house for another, the characters tend to stay with the previous publishing house. -- Lori Foster
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters. -- Lincoln Child
Say you're an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required? -- Joshua Cohen
I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace. -- Jane Green
You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products. -- Alexander Osterwalder
For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane. -- Sloane Crosley
The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past. -- Helen Jacobs
Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another. -- Lisa Unger
The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world. -- John Hall Wheelock
Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print. -- Viggo Mortensen

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