Publishing Quotes · Page 6

Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.

— Evan Williams

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.

— Charlie Huston

“It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.”

— Kristen Lamb

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

— Tanith Lee

Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it.

— Nick Bostrom

“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”

— Zig Ziglar

The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

— Paul McCartney

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

— Aleksandar Hemon

For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no…

— Lorin Stein

Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an…

— David Meerman Scott

I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they…

— Dorothy Parker

“[April Michelle Davis's motto on freelancing in the publishing industry:] Like it, love it, live it. Like your genres, love what you…

— April Michelle Davis

Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and…

— Guy Kawasaki

I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to…

— Hassan Blasim

Self-publishing is fine. But in a world of self-publishing, where everything is about what you get on the back end, there's a…

— Franklin Foer

Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing…

— Karen Russell

It's pretty interesting how it all started out. After The Voice, I got introduced to some of my publishing people. We were…

— Curtis Grimes

The Avengers films, ideally, in the grand plan are always big, giant linchpins. It’s like as it was in publishing, when each…

— Kevin Feige

On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that…

— Warren Buffett

Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production,…

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the…

— Thomas Dillon

I've been getting publishing royalties and stuff like that. I have just been lucky. They come in at the right time. Sometimes…

— Pharoah Sanders

While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for…

— Bill Gates

I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write…

— Melissa Febos

“When I finally did confront Mr. Arcott, after my return to Falchester, he had the cheek to try and argue that his…

— Marie Brennan

When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have…

— Salman Rushdie

Most writers in Mexico have had posts as ambassadors, secretaries - that is no longer the case. Now a writer can live…

— Carlos Fuentes

“The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing…

— Jack McClelland

In real life, I knew that fandom was made up of women, and women of color, and women of all ages. But…

— Marjorie M. Liu

I feel like I have more experience with publishing humor than pretty much any editor I'm going to be dealing with so…

— Dave Barry

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

— Peter Shaffer

“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.”

— Loren Weisman

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

— Nicholas Sparks

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

— Don Marquis

Whistle-blowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime, and certainly not as terrorism.

— Sarah Harrison

“What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled.”

— Horace

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

— Sarah Dessen

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

— Lauren Oliver