Publishing Quotes
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.
I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.
Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't really have that kind of off-switch.
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.
I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.
My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.
In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.
I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.
There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too.
One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.
What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.
At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.
It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.
I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.
I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.
I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.
I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.
The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.
Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.
The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!
