Publishing Quotes · Page 8

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

— James Frey

Publishing and film are such different worlds for writers.

— Leigh Bardugo

Whistleblowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime and certainly not as terrorism.

— Sara Harrison

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

— Daniel Clowes

With some of the samples that I chose to use, tracking down the person that owns the publishing has become a task.

— Big K.R.I.T

“‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing”

— Mariam Kobras

“Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.”

— T.L. Rese

The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past.

— Helen Jacobs

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers — and at some point the distinction should become meaningless,

— Nick Denton

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly…

— Rudy Rucker

If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks.…

— Irvine Welsh

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When I was doing it, I just thought, 'I'm going to do this because it's fun.' I wasn't writing for a publisher…

— Anna Todd

It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having…

— Allison Joseph

WikiLeaks has been publishing for ten years, and in those ten years, we have published ten million documents, several thousand individual publications,…

— Julian Assange

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got…

— Elton John

“Only a few short years ago, the average stay-at-home mom spent her relaxation time reading Jackie Collins and staring at the pool…

— Pete Morin

“If you would not spend time looking at it, do not ship it. One of the best quality assurance rules of thumb…

— Laura Busche

The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a…

— Nick Denton

New information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed…

— Anonymous

The transition from unknown to known-in-publishing has been empowering but also challenging. It's an honor to know that people actually want to…

— Angie Thomas

In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It…

— Virginia Henley

Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach…

— Matt Mullenweg

In publishing books and winning awards, it's like you've enjoyed this meal, you know, two months ago. How long can you be…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be…

— Madison Grant

The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments…

— Adrian Mitchell

“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:…

— Roman Payne

I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just…

— Biz Stone

My abject hatred of actors and the acting world. I went to college as an actor, and halfway through, I switched to…

— Christian Finnegan

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

— Daniel Berrigan

“One alphabet at a time, you can write an encyclopaedia. One word at a time, you can publish an entire library.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.

— Michael Korda

I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.

— Mona Van Duyn

“Publishing in an academic journal doesn’t do anything to dispel racist ideas.”

— Stefan Klein

Anbody can make an easy deal, but only a true agent can sell a dog.

— Irving Paul Lazar

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

— Salman Rushdie

“All indies self-publish but not all self-publishers are indie.”

— Orna Ross

The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books.

— Thomas Hauser

Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.

— Michelle Dean

“Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson