They love their jobs, and they love the creative excitement that comes from working there. But when you're sharing an apartment in Queens with four other people because you're getting 3 to 4 percent annual raises on a 25,000 salary, it's not a great thing.
More Quotes from Laurence Kirshbaum:
To get there after one week on any book is remarkable, but to do this on a book that has an 8 million advance is Nirvana. There are a lot of envious publishers today. I wish we raised our bid.Laurence Kirshbaum
I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.
Laurence Kirshbaum
The demands of publishing and marketing a book today have grown to exceed the ability of a publisher to cope. I felt very keenly that we were leaving so many good marketing ideas unexplored because there were too many authors and too little time.
Laurence Kirshbaum
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Creativity & Innovation Quotes, Kings & Queens QuotesSure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?
Charlie Sheen
A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.
Tim Bishop
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
Allen Tate