“A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.”

“Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!”

“The authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure they're talk-show ready.”

“I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection letter". This is basically what a rejection letter is like:Hello Pathetic Moron,We read your book. It sucked. Don't send us another one. If you do, we will run over your grandmother with a bus. Don't Do It.From, Your Publisher”

“Pluto will always be a planet in my book. That’s because my book was published before Pluto was blacklisted by planetary scientists.”

“From Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story, re: the travel book boom of the 1970sSurprisingly, none of the new developments in travel publishing came from established companies. The changes in the air seemed to completely bypass them and when they did wake up to the upsurge in growth it was too late -- they'd been overtaken. Much the same happened a decade later with computer books. Just as the travel book explosion was led by travelers who got into publishing rather than publishers getting into travel, so the computer book explosion was led by computer geeks getting into publishing. The regular publishers never saw it coming.”