"What a heartbreaking job it is trying..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.
More by George Bernard Shaw
“I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”
“The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.”
“If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.”
More on Authors
“There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.”
“Most recently I read Michael Lewis "Boomerang." The other guy I love is Bill Bryson.”
“I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.”
More on Publishing
“Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.”
“For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'”
“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.”