Publishing Quotes · Page 11

For me, the marriage of publishing and politics simply weaves together the two family businesses.

— John F. Kennedy Jr

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

— Donald E. Westlake

Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.

— Frederick Busch

“The road to publication can be rough, take snacks and a friend.”

— Elizabeth Hein

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

— Jim Harrison

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

— Joe Mansueto

If you go to a big publishing house, editorial aside, it's completely white.

— Colson Whitehead

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

— Sara Sheridan

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a…

— Piers Anthony

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might…

— Lev Grossman

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable…

— Lawrence Lessig

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my…

— Patrick White

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

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

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

— Robert Darnton

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— John Green

It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most…

— James M. Gavin

I think that anyone who likes writing views 'The New Yorker' as the, you know, pinnacle of the publishing world. If you…

— Lauren Weisberger

There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example.…

— Elizabeth Berg

With the publishing of The Basic Eight, it was often assumed that I was really immature and callow, and with the publishing…

— Daniel Handler

The big question that scientists haven't even begun to get an answer for is how many species of microorganisms are there? Now,…

— E. O. Wilson

When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It…

— Alan Garner

As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon…

— Judith Thurman

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

— Taiye Selasi

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

— Felix Dennis

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

— Thomas Browne

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

— Natalie Prass

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

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

— Amanda Hocking

I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.

— David Rees

“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”

— Jo Linsdell

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

— Alan Dershowitz

Johnson Publishing Co. has always had a first-class image. And until the day I die, I want to keep that image.

— Linda Johnson Rice

“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.”

— Jay Taylor

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

— Tucker Max

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

— Henry R. Luce

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

— Anonymous