Publishing Quotes · Page 9

Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck.

— Liza Campbell

“Writing is about you. Publishing is about the book. Marketing is about the reader.”

— Sean Platt

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.

— Joni Rodgers

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

— Seth Godin

“Being self-published makes me no less "published" than the authors who are with publishing companies.”

— Adrienne Thompson

Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.

— Belinda Carlisle

“I am not entirely persuaded that selling a book is like selling a pig.”

— Kathleen A. Flynn

“Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.”

— Natasha Yim

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is…

— Manuel Puig

I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books…

— Viggo Mortensen

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I've approached a couple of publishing houses about getting my work in print one day. I'd like to concentrate on sci-fi or…

— Brook Lopez

I really started self-publishing on a serious level in 2002. Those smaller books did well, ended up moving from doing a series…

— Tim Fish

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be…

— Francis Bacon

I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that…

— Jason Katims

“I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales…

— Sara Sheridan

With iPad publishing, you can try new things, experiment, and even launch new magazines without the massive risk normally associated with print…

— Scott Kelby

Many writers hate the shilling process, and I understand that. However, it's really the only thing about the publication process you can…

— Hanya Yanagihara

On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in…

— Edmund Wilson

One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on…

— Walter Kirn

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They…

— Tariq Ramadan

I am a co-writer of 'Survivor,' so there's publishing that I'll receive for some of the records.

— Mathew Knowles

“I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.”

— Jack McClelland

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

— Anonymous

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

— Jeffery Deaver

“You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

'Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future.

— Jim Lee

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

— Tillie Olsen

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

— Will Rogers

“You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.”

— Anurag Shourie

I got offered publishing deals to write country music, but it was not what I wanted to do.

— Natalie Prass

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

— Thomas Browne

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

— Felix Dennis

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

— Taiye Selasi

“We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.”

— Sara Sheridan

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

— Joe Mansueto