Publishing Quotes
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.
I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.
The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.
I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.
Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.
There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.
I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.
Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.
Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.
I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me
I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.
If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.
I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.
The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
Of all the climatologists whose careers depend on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles — yes, I could read that, but I don't believe it.
The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.
So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.
Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.
The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.
When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."
As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.
When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.
An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.
