Publishing Quotes · Page 30

Whistleblowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime and certainly not as terrorism.

— Sara Harrison

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

— Bruce Jackson

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

— Jeffery Deaver

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

— Kristen Lamb

The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past.

— Helen Jacobs

I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to…

— Hassan Blasim

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both.…

— Jennifer Gilmore

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to…

— John Green

“You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were…

— Donnie Fritts

So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're…

— Michael Jackson

“I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could…

— Beth Revis

Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way…

— Ben Clymer

For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing…

— Hassan Blasim

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

— Lauren Oliver

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In…

— Heather Brooke

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

— Dick Bruna

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

When I started teaching, I would get miffed if a student asked me to write him or her a recommendation for law…

— Anthony DeCurtis

“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

A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.

— Maria Rodale

“When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have…

— Salman Rushdie

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

— Terry Pratchett

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one…

— Anonymous