There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Part of my impetus to get famous is to have access to printed matter. I love all the stuff like postcards, books,… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and… — Laura Hillenbrand 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
Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're… — Dennis O'Neil Copy Share Image
A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church,… — Voltaire 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 feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Today in many western countries, nobody dares question the Holocaust whose nature is questionable. According to the reports I have received, in… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
“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 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
Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their… — Vantile Whitfield Copy Share Image
When you get a song placed with two of the top stars in the world, like Rihanna and Eminem, especially as a… — Jon Bellion Copy Share Image
Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because… — Johnny Rivers Copy Share Image
“He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru"… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel - but rarely for content, and especially not without a… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“Still, to be urged to write and to be urged to publish are two different things and nobody so far was urging… — Alan Bennett The Uncommon Reader Copy Share Image
“This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
I really started self-publishing on a serious level in 2002. Those smaller books did well, ended up moving from doing a series… — Tim Fish Copy Share Image
But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
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