Publishing Quotes · Page 2

Editing is the most companionable form of education.

— Ed Weeks

“Digital distribution has widened the reading world.”

— Sara Sheridan

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

— Judith Rossner

My mother obviously was in the publishing business.

— John F. Kennedy Jr

“For one thing, we’re doing publishing wrong.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“General Mills Editorial Director: Jeff Nowak Publishing”

— Anonymous

Don't sign your publishing away.

— Johnny Van Zant

“If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”

— Tiffany Madison

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

— Vince Flynn

I think publishing is a cost of research in the same way as buying a centrifuge is a cost of research.

— Mark Walport

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

— Lauren Oliver

“It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.”

— Kristen Lamb

Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it.

— Nick Bostrom

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

— Tanith Lee

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.

— Charlie Huston

Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.

— Evan Williams

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away.…

— Natalie Goldberg

[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God…

— Ann Voskamp

“He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during…

— Robert Galbraith

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru"…

— Shimon Peres

With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel - but rarely for content, and especially not without a…

— Andrew Shaffer

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music…

— Paul Lansky

Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because…

— Johnny Rivers

“A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars.”

— Anonymous

I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner…

— Ana Tijoux

The big question that scientists haven't even begun to get an answer for is how many species of microorganisms are there? Now,…

— E. O. Wilson

As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon…

— Judith Thurman

When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It…

— Alan Garner

Commerce is abusive. It's very hobbling to always be saying, 'Please let me put this out, this thing I've worked on for…

— Patti Davis

A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing,…

— Michael Parenti

There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen.…

— Lori Foster

With the publishing of The Basic Eight, it was often assumed that I was really immature and callow, and with the publishing…

— Daniel Handler

The Internet obviously changes things; we've seen that in the music industry above all else. As an author, I'm now having to…

— Misha Glenny

That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal…

— Michael Kosser

In the war time many of the publishing houses were privately owned, a single publisher or a publisher and a few associates…

— James Salter

“The book covers are a crucial part of my work - personally speaking. Particularly because, I cannot write a single word of…

— Abhijit Naskar

I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women,…

— Marjorie M. Liu

No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has…

— Jonathan Messinger

The response by agribusiness interests has been to back laws that ban animal advocates from taking pictures or videos at these facilities,…

— Wayne Pacelle

During the process of writing the book, I had this experience that was telling for me. I got it and the basic…

— Valerie Estelle Frankel