Publishing Quotes · Page 10

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

— Jim Harrison

If you go to a big publishing house, editorial aside, it's completely white.

— Colson Whitehead

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

— Tucker Max

“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.”

— Jay Taylor

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

— Henry R. Luce

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

— Alan Dershowitz

Johnson Publishing Co. has always had a first-class image. And until the day I die, I want to keep that image.

— Linda Johnson Rice

“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”

— Jo Linsdell

“You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a…

— Israelmore Ayivor

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the…

— Jackie Kennedy

There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Truth is, people like buying things for $0.99 and $1.99 for their digital devices. We know that from iTunes. We know that…

— Jennifer Lee

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's…

— Chad Harbach

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business…

— Jodi Picoult

Sponsored stories are not a great way to monetize mobile traffic. The phone is way more of a publishing tool than a…

— Keith Teare

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.

— Marjorie Scardino

You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book,…

— Margaret Atwood

I think the Internet gives too much for a young artist to compare themselves too. I'm not sure that "notes" or "likes"…

— Liz Prince

Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for…

— Thomas Jefferson

In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on…

— Samantha Shannon

My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested…

— Flannery O'Connor

The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be…

— Naomi Wolf

When I started teaching, I would get miffed if a student asked me to write him or her a recommendation for law…

— Anthony DeCurtis

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

— Amanda Hocking

I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.

— David Rees

Anbody can make an easy deal, but only a true agent can sell a dog.

— Irving Paul Lazar

“Publishing in an academic journal doesn’t do anything to dispel racist ideas.”

— Stefan Klein

I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.

— Mona Van Duyn

“One alphabet at a time, you can write an encyclopaedia. One word at a time, you can publish an entire library.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.

— Michael Korda

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

— Daniel Berrigan

The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books.

— Thomas Hauser

“All indies self-publish but not all self-publishers are indie.”

— Orna Ross

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

— Salman Rushdie

The crazy thing is after I had my son, that next year, I got a publishing deal. The next year, I got…

— Jimmie Allen

“Blogging isn’t about publishing as much as you can. It’s about publishing as smart as you can.”

— Jon Morrow

“Publicamos para não passar a vida a corrigir rascunhos. Quer dizer, a gente publica um livro para livrar-se dele”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.”

— T.L. Rese

The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past.

— Helen Jacobs