Publicists Quotes

I've had high-powered publicists in my career, and I've had publicists when they've had no power. I've run the gamut.

It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.

It's notoriously difficult to get actors to go on record speaking about other actors. Such requests are usually met with terse replies from publicists explaining that their clients are on set and too busy to reply.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

While some entertainment executives understand the power of having someone else speak for you, most Hollywood publicists don't.

The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.

I never wanted to work with celebrities. I have no interest. I don't really care about their egos and their publicists.

The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.

You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.

Modern politics is really a battle between lawyers and marketeers.

I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

An historian's task is to extol the famous deeds of famous men in order to incite the hearts of mankind to virtue, but to veil in silence the dark deeds of the base or. if they are drawn into the light, by the telling to place them on record to terrify the minds of those same mortals.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

I turned to Annabeth and shook my head in exasperation. “Always Hercules. What is it with Hercules?” Annabeth shrugged. “He had a great publicist.