Publishing Quotes · Page 7

I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

— Biz Stone

For the most part, it's straight white men running these labels and publishing companies.

— Justin Tranter

I signed my first publishing deal when I was 14, and it was from two records I put on MySpace.

— MNEK

Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.

— Matt Mullenweg

“Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!”

— Carmen DeSousa

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

— Max Cannon

For so long, I could not get a publishing deal to save my life. I couldn't get a record deal to save…

— Lainey Wilson

I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos

— Duncan Sheik

“In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt…

— Sara Sheridan

Visibility is one of the most difficult parts of the self-publishing equation. No matter how great your book is, it is fighting…

— Andrew Shaffer

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing…

— Kenneth Anger

What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after…

— Winifred Holtby

I'm really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It's something that I think doesn't get the weight…

— Sarah Dessen

When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they…

— Caroline Leavitt

I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or…

— Kate Zambreno

Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little…

— Garth Greenwell

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight…

— Jeff Kinney

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I…

— Kingsley Amis

I think there's a great homogenizing force that software imposes on people and limits the way they think about what's possible on…

— Golan Levin

North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has signed a deal with Random House to write his memoirs. Scholars will no doubt benefit from…

— Paul Begala

But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing…

— David Frum

I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the…

— Ali Liebegott

If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps…

— Ann Patchett

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church,…

— Voltaire

“If you don’t put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There’s the writer and there’s…

— Andre Dubus III

Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to…

— Andrew Latimer

“It has been our experience that American houses insist on very comprehensive editing; that English houses as a rule require little or…

— Jack McClelland

“Josephy visited several leading Manhattan bookstores and sadly discovered the explanation [from his agent] to be generally correct; books about Indians were…

— Bobby Bridger

“You were right the first time, Cathy. It was a stupid, silly story. Ridiculous! Only insane people would die for the sake…

— V.C. Andrews

“When I finally did confront Mr. Arcott, after my return to Falchester, he had the cheek to try and argue that his…

— Marie Brennan

I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write…

— Melissa Febos

I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a…

— Deborah Smith

“...publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write.”

— J.D. Salinger

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

— Joe R. Lansdale

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

— V. S. Naipaul

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

— Donald E. Westlake

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

— Kevin J. Anderson

As soon as you start publishing, you are the star and so people see you that way.

— Jeffrey Walker

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

— Orhan Pamuk

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

— Dick Bruna