Publishing Quotes

Publication - is the auction of the mind...

— Emily Dickinson

“I am just an ordinary guy with a high internet profile.”

— Steven Magee

I had a publishing deal way before I had a record deal.

— Cole Swindell

“Sometimes, I'm brave. Sometimes, I'm just stubbron.”

— Nigia Stephens

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

— John Van Hamersveld

“Dream up a book on Monday, publish it on Friday.”

— Jill Novak

Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

— Clay Shirky

The wheels of publishing never slow down.

— Laurie Graham

“What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled.”

— Horace

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

— Sarah Dessen

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

— Nicholas Sparks

Whistle-blowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime, and certainly not as terrorism.

— Sarah Harrison

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

— Don Marquis

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

— Peter Shaffer

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.”

— Loren Weisman

The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're…

— Dennis O'Neil

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and…

— Laura Hillenbrand

God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family…

— Iain Pears

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the…

— Barry Eisler

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Part of my impetus to get famous is to have access to printed matter. I love all the stuff like postcards, books,…

— Jack Pierson

I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were…

— Donnie Fritts

When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on…

— John Battelle

It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most…

— James M. Gavin

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to…

— John Green

I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20…

— Khoi Vinh

When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do…

— Nicholas Negroponte

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but…

— Patrick Rothfuss

For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out…

— Sloane Crosley

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing.…

— Jackson Browne

The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to…

— Ishmael Reed

Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may…

— Paul Goodman

“Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We're sorry, but no... and then more beautiful things. It's a shit sandwich with branston…

— Kate Inglis

My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman.…

— Robert J. Shiller

With the communication internet, whole industries have been disrupted. You're in the publishing industry, you understand that. Before, we had newspapers, magazines…

— Jeremy Rifkin

There has to be a kind of grassroots push, a movement, as it were, against the inherent isolationism of American capitalism as…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Like writing, publishing is not easy. No endeavor worth pursuing is. Discomfort and fear are easy outs—and ultimately dead ends. They are…

— Rossandra White

Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags…

— P. J. O'Rourke

WikiLeaks does not publish from the jurisdiction of Ecuador, from this embassy or in the territory of Ecuador; we publish from France,…

— Julian Assange