There is some truth to the claim that trade publishing has become a harried, assembly-line operation with its head on the block. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform… — Otis Blackwell 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
I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“An author’s strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher’s commitment to it.” — Sterling Lord Copy Share Image
When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something… — Marco Arment 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
We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Publishing content that is self-absorbed in substance or style alienates readers. Most successful organizations have realized this, yet many sites are still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different… — James Salter Copy Share Image
First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It… — Doris Lessing 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
Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is… — Deborah Smith 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
“I judge the quality of my work by the quality of the people that follow it. If my readers are the most… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“NEWSPAPER: What great paper is the Earth; what a typeface is the Day; what ink is the Night! – Everyone prints, everyone… — Xavier Forneret Copy Share Image
It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I… — Andrew Wylie Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize… — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
A lot of influencers who have made the pivot to publishing, they tend to be ghostwritten, they tend to be younger. It's… — Lindsay Ellis Copy Share Image
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success. — A. Scott Berg 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
“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“Self publishing' is not as easy as it is portrayed! When you think you have finished your book, proof read, proof read… — Phil Simpkin Copy Share Image
Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
I record all my speeches and have DTP prints of them. When I happened to read the speeches compiled I thought it… — Balachandra Menon Copy Share Image
It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination. — Peter Chernin Copy Share Image
Now that I understand how publishing schedules work, I can understand why many authors have the sophomore slump. A year is a… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing. — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
