When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that… — Larry Kirshbaum Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an… — Charles Stross 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
In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I'd had 12 different job titles in publishing before I typed 'The End' at the bottom of a manuscript page. I thought… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
... people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people… — Paul Ford Copy Share Image
Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing.… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
I remember Stephen King did a fundraiser one time with J.K. Rowling and he was very impressed with her. But we talk… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I learned that you have to respect how much time and work a writer has put into their book. I always give… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
“Musicians become professionals by playing a hundred live shows. Likewise, writers become authors by publishing a lot of bad work (until it’s… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC.… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels. — Hallie Ephron 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can… — Lynn Abbey 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
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
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
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