People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“Why don’t we approach literature like we approach music and the fine arts?” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Being in the entertainment industry in L.A. is the equivalent to being in the publishing industry in New York. You don't ever… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“But really it says everything that’s wrong about the publishing industry, that a quarter of a million people bought and read a… — Sarra Manning 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
The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
If I had followed my own rules - if I had eaten my own dog food - I would have created a… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody,… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
At every writers' conference, you have the opportunity to hear from best-selling authors, top literary agents, and excellent editors who will demystify… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
With the communication internet, whole industries have been disrupted. You're in the publishing industry, you understand that. Before, we had newspapers, magazines… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“In TIME June 7, 2010 On the sustainability of the publishing industry, in the Chicago Tribune: "I think that book publishing is… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The Internet obviously changes things; we've seen that in the music industry above all else. As an author, I'm now having to… — Misha Glenny 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
“Fantasy and science fiction are closely allied in publishing, since both categories posit worlds that are not reality. The SF editor is… — David G. Hartwell Copy Share Image
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new. — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
The publishing industry provides a viable channel which enables a wide distribution of books that we're not seeing in any other way.… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
“It was after an incident such as this that my friends and family decided something must be done. They gathered for a… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
