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The biggest kick is reading something new and exciting and then getting other people to share your enthusiasm. Beyond all the cant and hypocrisy in publishing, that's what it's all about.

~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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At Knopf, everything is inherited.

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We think continuity's important.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Editor

Born: Unknown

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