The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice should take a long, hard look at the standard publishing contract. — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“it takes a village to build success in publishing a book - it takes friends that are willing to help - it… — Rich Okun Copy Share Image
It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
“I am still actively engaged at the job I like best, which is working with authors and promoting them. But, at this… — John C. Farrar Copy Share Image
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book is like giving birth. You labor over it and then produce what you think is the most beautiful thing… — Jordan Silver Copy Share Image
I think it's significantly easier to be a female writer today than in the early 1800's. That said, it's hard to imagine… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job… — John Hall Wheelock Copy Share Image
You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC.… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“Musicians become professionals by playing a hundred live shows. Likewise, writers become authors by publishing a lot of bad work (until it’s… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that… — Larry Kirshbaum Copy Share Image
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
“We’ve already said the difference between success and failure in most things — and self-publishing is no exception — is a matter… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The publishing industry provides a viable channel which enables a wide distribution of books that we're not seeing in any other way.… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both.… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, they're one of the main forces keeping publishing in this country a primary white middle-class industry,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
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