64 Quotes by Sonny Mehta

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    Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.

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    Profit is one way that you can take pride in the way you publish things and insure that you can go on doing it.

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    There's a blockbuster side to Knopf, whether it's P. D. James or John le Carre or our best-selling books. We try to sell our writers as aggressively as those houses regarded as commercial with a capital C.

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    I didn't think I would be an exceptional writer, and I thought I might be a useful publisher. I've never regretted it.

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    As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.

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    You do not give a great biographer a timetable. You let them do their work and, in due course, publish it.

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    'Dispatches' is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century and the most brilliant treatment of war and men I have ever read.

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