I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
For so long, I could not get a publishing deal to save my life. I couldn't get a record deal to save… — Lainey Wilson Copy Share Image
I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“...publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Sponsored stories are not a great way to monetize mobile traffic. The phone is way more of a publishing tool than a… — Keith Teare Copy Share Image
I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Publishing, I learn later, is a little like the garment industry: You have to be geographically well placed, in New York, for… — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever. — Nicholas Sparks 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
Seeing 'Pretty Little Liars' fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering, and I think what Amazon Publishing… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Ebooks represent a shift from a culture of scarcity to a culture of abundance. In the past, publishing required a great deal… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks does not publish from the jurisdiction of Ecuador, from this embassy or in the territory of Ecuador; we publish from France,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
There has to be a kind of grassroots push, a movement, as it were, against the inherent isolationism of American capitalism as… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Like writing, publishing is not easy. No endeavor worth pursuing is. Discomfort and fear are easy outs—and ultimately dead ends. They are… — Rossandra White Copy Share Image
“Josephy visited several leading Manhattan bookstores and sadly discovered the explanation [from his agent] to be generally correct; books about Indians were… — Bobby Bridger Copy Share Image
“It has been our experience that American houses insist on very comprehensive editing; that English houses as a rule require little or… — Jack McClelland Copy Share Image
I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to… — Andrew Latimer Copy Share Image
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