Publishing Quotes · Page 9

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

— Anna Chlumsky

You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.

— Sean Lennon

“Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.”

— Ryan Lilly

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

— Jennifer Gilmore

Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.

— Mary Kay Andrews

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

— Margaret Atwood

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

— Jane Smiley

I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.

— Deborah Moggach

“An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication…

— George Bernard Shaw

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

— Clay Shirky

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine…

— Sammy Hagar

Of all the climatologists whose careers depend on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles — yes, I could read that,…

— Larry Bucshon

The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society…

— Pope Leo XIII

There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should…

— Joe Mimran

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

— J. D. Salinger

I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted…

— Jabari Asim

“In TIME June 7, 2010 On the sustainability of the publishing industry, in the Chicago Tribune: "I think that book publishing is…

— Garrison Keillor

Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have…

— Susan Wiggs

It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for…

— George W. Bush

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like…

— J. D. Salinger

First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary…

— Randall Jarrell

The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It…

— Doris Lessing

That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love…

— Clancy Martin

We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the…

— Robert Gottlieb

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

— Juvenal

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

— Evgeny Morozov

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“As Forest Gump would say. "Self publishing is like a box of chocolates. You never know whatcha gonna ghet!”

— Joe King

“Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.”

— Ella J. Fraser

We didn't know anything about publishing. The first go-around we didn't make a nickel.

— DJ Yella

“I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.”

— Piers Anthony

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

— Vince Flynn

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

— Dan Brown

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

— Bennett Cerf

One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.

— Andrew Latimer

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

— Robert Benchley

“There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.”

— T.L. Rese

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

— William Targ

“Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.”

— Rayne Hall

Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck.

— Liza Campbell