Publishing Quotes
One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books.
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.
I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!
I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.
My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.
Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no one else could publish, or publish equally well. So there's that.
The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.
With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.
A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the Financial Times.
Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement
I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.
Being in the entertainment industry in L.A. is the equivalent to being in the publishing industry in New York. You don't ever have to hangout with anybody else.
I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.
