Publishing Quotes · Page 5

I should have my own publishing companies.

— Solomon Burke

“Bookshops are at the coalface of our industry.”

— Sara Sheridan

There's no law preventing a journalist from publishing whatever they want.

— Asha Rangappa

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

— George Singleton

Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.

— Tara Westover

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

— Stephen Kinzer

I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

— Clement Freud

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

— Tucker Max

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

— Barry Diller

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

— Chris Pavone

If there's one thing that the Web has changed about modern communication, it's that we've at long last done away with the…

— Lore Sjoberg

Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is…

— Jam Master Jay

While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing…

— Sammy Hagar

Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to…

— Hugo Black

“The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll…

— Dermot Davis

Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore…

— Cris Mazza

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for…

— George Bernard Shaw

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a…

— Nick Earls

First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary…

— Randall Jarrell

The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It…

— Doris Lessing

That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love…

— Clancy Martin

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the…

— Leslie Jamison

Yoshihiro Togashi here. I'm back doing a weekly serial, and here I am publishing my first volume already. Thanks to all my…

— Yoshihiro Togashi

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than…

— Xiaolu Guo

People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is…

— Tucker Max

I feel like I have more experience with publishing humor than pretty much any editor I'm going to be dealing with so…

— Dave Barry

“Besides,” said Mr Norrell, “I really have no desire to write reviews of other people's books. Modern publications upon magic are the…

— Susanna Clarke

Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

In real life, I knew that fandom was made up of women, and women of color, and women of all ages. But…

— Marjorie M. Liu

When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different…

— Donald Ray Pollock

The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments…

— Adrian Mitchell

“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:…

— Roman Payne

We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be…

— Madison Grant

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.

— Desiree Rogers

I want to have a publishing company and a record label, and I want to manage five artists... eventually.

— Charli XCX

“After much research I've found the secret to publishing: Write excellent books. Write lots of them.”

— Liana Brooks

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

— Ken Baumann

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.”

— Sara Sheridan