The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so. — William Targ Copy Share Image
It's true that in Romanian I feel more relaxed, as if I'm wearing slippers...but I came to this decision primarily for other… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Now, almost twenty years since my last job in book publishing, I know that there are far more socially inept people in… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job… — John Hall Wheelock Copy Share Image
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times. — Joely Richardson Copy Share Image
The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing” — Mariam Kobras Copy Share Image
If you don't believe in yourself, and you don't have the fortitude to make that dream happen, why should the hotshots in… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies,… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production,… — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
Whatever the reasons, 2008 it felt as though the combination of distribution models starting to tighten and the publishing and film and… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
I signed my first publishing deal when I was 14, and it was from two records I put on MySpace. — MNEK Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
“Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.” — Ella J. Fraser Copy Share Image
To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that… — John Sebastian Copy Share Image
What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
“The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing… — Jack McClelland Copy Share Image
Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
