Publishing Quotes · Page 11

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

— Daniel Clowes

“‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing”

— Mariam Kobras

With some of the samples that I chose to use, tracking down the person that owns the publishing has become a task.

— Big K.R.I.T

Whistleblowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime and certainly not as terrorism.

— Sara Harrison

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

— James Frey

And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

— Anonymous

Publishing and film are such different worlds for writers.

— Leigh Bardugo

We didn't know anything about publishing. The first go-around we didn't make a nickel.

— DJ Yella

I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about…

— Caroline Leavitt

What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy…

— Robert Gottlieb

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took…

— Anita Diament

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings…

— Alfred Kazin

For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no…

— Lorin Stein

“People can’t read a book if they don’t know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.”

— Jo Linsdell

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published…

— Tibor Fischer

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself.…

— Graham Swift

“Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of…

— Anonymous

Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems,…

— Alan Coren

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later,…

— Steve Martin

I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people…

— John Katzman

I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody,…

— Kage Baker

Whatever the reasons, 2008 it felt as though the combination of distribution models starting to tighten and the publishing and film and…

— John Buffalo Mailer

I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the…

— Jay McInerney

“I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.”

— Piers Anthony

“Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.”

— Ella J. Fraser

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“As Forest Gump would say. "Self publishing is like a box of chocolates. You never know whatcha gonna ghet!”

— Joe King

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

— Juvenal

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

— Evgeny Morozov

“Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.”

— Rayne Hall

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

— William Targ

“There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.”

— T.L. Rese

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

— Robert Benchley

One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.

— Andrew Latimer

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

— Dan Brown

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

— Vince Flynn

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

— Bennett Cerf

“Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.”

— Ryan Lilly

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

— Anna Chlumsky