{"quotes":[{"text":"But really it says everything that’s wrong about the publishing industry, that a quarter of a million people bought and read a sex and shopping novel that wasn’t even written by one of those footballer girlfriends, and yet most of the shortlisted titles on the Orange Prize, which is an award for women writers, don’t even sell ten thousand copies. It’s just not right.","author":"Sarra Manning","tags":["books","publishers"],"id":2612,"author_id":"Sarra+Manning"},{"text":"Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["art","books","business","literature","publisher","publishers","publishing"],"id":18636,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It’s creepy, but had good intentions that suddenly experienced some strange form of verticillium wilt, during the climate change of their mood.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bizarre-behavior","disrespect","humor","inconsistency","indecisive","justified","moody","novels","pity","publishers","social-media","stories","strangers","strong-minded-characters","teachers","the-gods-of-awesomeness","understanding","weird-pickles","writers"],"id":35590,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.","author":"Michelle M. Pillow","tags":["-life","control","indie","indie-","indie-books","indie-publishing","indie-writing","publishers","publishing","publishing-books","publishing-industry","writing-life"],"id":58073,"author_id":"Michelle+M.+Pillow"},{"text":"I write to find strength.I write to become the person that hides inside me.I write to light the way through the darkness for others.I write to be seen and heard.I write to be near those I love.I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper. I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.I write past the embarrassment of exposure.I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal. I write myself out of nightmares.I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings.I write to remember.I write knowing conversations don’t always take place.I write because speaking can’t be reread.I write to sooth a mind that races.I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand.I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide.I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long.I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be.I write to provide a legacy.I write to make sense out of senselessness.I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding. I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers.I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time. I write because God loves stories.I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["books","choices","co","craft","desire","hobbies","inspirational-writers","legacy","life-purpose","novels","publishers","romance-writers","stories","why-do-you-write","write","writers","writing","writing-craft","writing-industry"],"id":73628,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["hacks","publishers","writing"],"id":113146,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards \u0026 his issue--among others--with the judging system, 1981).","author":"Jack McClelland","tags":["awards","humor","judging","publishers","publishing","writing"],"id":165366,"author_id":"Jack+McClelland"},{"text":"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’s publisher.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["book","books","contract","contracts","copyright","copyrights","hardcover","humor","humour","ink","literature","own","owner","owners","ownership","paper","paperback","philosopher","philosophy","print","printing","publisher","publishers","publishing","satire","satirist","social-criticism"],"id":193123,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["agents","business","contracts","publishers","publishing"],"id":238141,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"},{"text":"Bible publishers are not selling Bibles. What they're selling is that iconic idea of the Bible. Their value-added biblical content promises to provide answers to questions, solutions to problems, and speaks in no uncertain terms about God's plan for your life and how to live it. Adding value to the Bible almost always means adding 'biblical' values that are either missing or really hard to find in the Bible itself but that provide that feeling of Bibleness so many seek.","author":"Timothy Beal","tags":["bible","expectations","publishers"],"id":269604,"author_id":"Timothy+Beal"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}