Jonathan Galassi Quotes

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Even after the text is written, there are a tremendous number of stages along the way to the finished book. If a publisher cares about the finished product, none of them will be omitted.

I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process.

I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.

My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

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.

Whether you work with a small or corporate press, the important thing is to have realistic expectations in terms of sales, promotion, and the work you have to do as an author promoting your novel.

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.