“Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer...” — James Laughlin Quote

“Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.”

“We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.”

“It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.”

“Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.”

“Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.”

“A misconception that exists in the eyes of the general reading population is that authors make truckloads of money.”