Publishing Quotes

329 quotes by 274 authors

As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline… — Julian Assange
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely… — Julian Assange
When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
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 go wrong. — Lynn Abbey
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be… — Lee Child
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house. — Anna Chlumsky
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. — Paulo Coelho
I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get… — Piers Anthony
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the… — Mark Twain
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. — Hannes Alfven
Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they… — Donald E. Westlake
A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Anbody can make an easy deal, but only a true agent can sell a dog. — Irving Paul Lazar
That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to… — Natalie Goldberg
Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse. — Tillie Olsen
You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only… — Sydney Lea
As soon as you start publishing, you are the star and so people see you that way. — Jeffrey Walker
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton
There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was a… — Elizabeth Berg

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