Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.” — Jay Taylor Copy Share Image
“People don't know they want to become an author until they meet me.” — Lucas J. Robak Copy Share Image
When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material,… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.” — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put… — Jack McClelland Copy Share Image
The crazy thing is after I had my son, that next year, I got a publishing deal. The next year, I got… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The response by agribusiness interests has been to back laws that ban animal advocates from taking pictures or videos at these facilities,… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a… — Gerald Petievich Copy Share Image
With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should… — Joe Mimran Copy Share Image
You know how some people are upwardly mobile? I'm sort of downwardly mobile in the publishing world, because of my sales figures… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The publishing world has been very slow to adapt to the digital world. — Caroline Calloway Copy Share Image
[Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant's Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many… — Hal Holbrook 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
Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
[On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can't get at it, or… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
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