Quotes by Publishers - Page 10

Did you ever think about writing memoirs? You are a writer, and it may be interesting for people to read your story."I hate memoirs. But I am sure I will write a book about the Bowery Mission,” Michael said.
Stevan V. Nikolic
Manuscript editions didn't immediately die out with the printing explosion that burst across Europe in the 1460s and 1470s. Manuscripts continued to be produced into the 16th century, many decades after presses had spread to most minor cities in Western Europe.
Ian Lamont
Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter
Richard Due
Grace is that turning point from feeling hopeless to becoming empowered.
Deborah Brodie
Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.
Vera Nazarian
Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.
Chris Prentiss
Old media companies will be further challenged in the next 15 years, as a new wave of user-generated content washes over the Internet, thanks to the increasing availability and affordability of portable, digital-based electronic devices. The cameraphones which seemed like such novelties just a few years ago will be in everyone's purse and pocket a few years from now.
Ian Lamont
Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.Is the glass part full or part empty?Take another sip.And now?
Vera Nazarian
We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality.
Jeff VanderMeer
It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that c
Vera Nazarian
Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb
Richard Due
Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.
Vera Nazarian
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
The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.
Judith Regan
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn
Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.
Tim O'Reilly
Bipolar illness, manic depression, manic-depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosis. That’s a nice way of saying you will feel so high that no street drug can compete and you will feel so low that you wish you had been hit by a Mack truck instead.
Christine F. Anderson
People happily kill other people in the name of everything from a god to a country to an overly developed sense of annoyance when someone cuts across two lanes on a freeway without signaling. Cats will, on occasion, kill other cats but for the most part they are content to puff up their furr, yowl like banshees, and rip the occassional ear off - and all this is usually done for the sake of food or protecting their own territory (which may not be condonable but it is at least rational) .
Peter Gethers
Laugh soon because you never know how soon it will be too late
Thomas F. Shubnell
It has been our experience that American houses insist on very comprehensive editing; that English houses as a rule require little or none and are inclined to go along with the author's script almost without query. The Canadian practice is just what you would expect--a middle-of-the-road course. We think the Americans edit too heavily and interfere with the author's rights. We think that the English publishers don't take enough editorial responsibility. Naturally, then, we consider our editing to be just about perfect. There's no doubt about it, we Canadians are a superior breed! (in a letter to author Margaret Laurence, dated May, 1960)
Jack McClelland
Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
To preserve what you have, to keep your relationships alive and glowing, give generously- give of your time, you assets, your attention, your help, and your love. Give of yourself.
Chris Prentiss
It is logical to say that ignorance seems to be the root cause of all human suffering.
Kat Lahr
People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.
Dave Eggers
People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.
Chris Prentiss
You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.
Chris Prentiss
Even though I seem not human, a mute shelfof glucose, bottled blood, machineryto swell the lung and pump the heart—even so,do not put out my life. Let me still glow.
Dudley Randall
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.
Emilie Buchwald
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.
Dave Eggers
I think that both our lives and the potential directions our lives may go are predestined. By using our free will in making our life choices, we do nothing else but picking up one of many already predestined options. To us, it seems like we were making the decision, while in reality, we just selected one of many possibilities that were already a part of our destiny.
Stevan V. Nikolic
Small but growing is better than big and stuck.
David Waweru
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
Vera Nazarian
A Truthful Evaluation Of Yourself Gives Feedback For Growth and Success
Brenda Johnson Padgitt
Older age has taught one crucial lesson about life. It has taught me that regardless of where I've been I still have much to see and despite every fall I still haven't experienced it all.
Sinister Publications
Laugh a little when the joke's on you
Helen Gurley Brown
If this world affords true happiness it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years where the necessities of life come without severe strain where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
A. Edward Newton
Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight?—What weight?—The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we're vessels, and we are, then we, you and I, are overfull, and that means she's at the bottom of a deep cold lake. How can she stand the hissing of all that water?—We are not vessels; we are missiles.—We're static and we're empty. We are overfull and leaden.—We are airtight and we are missiles and all-powerful.
Dave Eggers
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?
Vera Nazarian
Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youthWhy?-Isn't it gorgeous?
Dave Eggers
Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.
Helen Gurley Brown
As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare ..
Alexander Gordon Smith
Handsome hero wanted.Brave in the face of certain danger.Must be willing to get naked with other species.At least six-inch penis required.Fee is negotiable.
James Cox
You can do anything you wish to do have anything you wish to have be anything you wish to be.
Robert Collier
Thing is," Grial said in a conspiratorial voice, "let me tell you a little secret, girlie. That road- those roads, all roads and paths in fact- they never end. You might think they do. You might think they just narrow and fade and disappear in the hoary depths of the forest? Not so, not at all! They merely go into hiding, and you just have to search a bit harder to see them.
Vera Nazarian
His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves?
Dave Eggers
I guess a little bit hero is enough. A little bit hero is all anyone really needs to be.
Alexander Gordon Smith
Humans have wandered the Earth for thousands of years but never has our capacity to alter the Earth’s ecosystem at a larger scale been more prominent than it is today.
Kat Lahr
The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.
Vera Nazarian
We recognize that you've used substances to try to regain your lost balance, to try to feel the way you did before the need arose to use addictive drugs or alcohol. We know that you use substances to alter your mood, to cover up your sadness, to ease your heartbreak, to lighten your stress load, to blur your painful memories, to escape your hurtful reality, or to make your unbearable days or nights bearable.
Chris Prentiss
101 Reason why its its great to be a woman : Since the advent of feminism, we can publicly ogle male bodies and not be called sexist. If a man indulges in this behavior over a picture of naked woman, he is a sexist pig, and recompense must be demanded for this slight on womankind.
Summersdale Publishers
He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?
Dave Eggers
If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year. ... Today should always be our most wonderful day.
Thomas Dreier
The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...
Vera Nazarian
Our friends through cables and computer screens are as real as the light and sound waves we alter through thought.
Belinda Subraman
The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.
Vera Nazarian
Thank you," he says."Thank who?""I don't know.
Dave Eggers
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
The way to get ahead is to start now.
William Feather
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes