There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
360 deals are the new things of the industry. It's not about selling records; it's about selling T-shirts, getting a piece of… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“It's a funny thing, really, me publishing a book… I've had so many people tell me it was stupid or impossible or… — Molly Lynn Robinson Copy Share Image
Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
It was something that hopefully sparked a few people to do similar things down the road and will keep a certain flavor… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
There are the Podesta emails we've been publishing. [John] Podesta is Hillary Clinton's primary campaign manager, so there's a thread that runs… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they… — James Frey Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks, for me, has not only that element in it of journalism publishing, but also the way in which it does it,… — Sarah Harrison Copy Share Image
Given the trendlines of digital publishing, where more and more large platforms are profiting from, and controlling, the works of individuals, I… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly… — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
Launching Collins in the U.S. fulfills the original vision of the 1989 union of Harper & Row and William Collins. Publishing has… — David D. Friedman Copy Share Image
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful… — Matt Drudge Copy Share Image
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
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… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Whether it's a song you write or a television show or a movie or professional wrestling, there are three components to IP… — Jeff Jarrett Copy Share Image
I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live… — Patrick Nowell-Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my… — Solomon Burke Copy Share Image
This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's possible there are no two books in publishing history more dissimilar than 'Human Traces' and 'Devil May Care.' And that was… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books. — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
I know people think that having a regular publisher is more prestigious, there is even this idea that self-publishing is a result… — Caroline Calloway Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone's career is so big that they can't know where their major synchs are or where their publishing is… — Deadmau5 Copy Share Image
Johnson Publishing has been built on filling a need for African-Americans. This is what's happening with E Style. There was nothing that… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper,… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
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… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image