Publishing Quotes

329 quotes by 270 authors

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art. — Michael Korda
Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story,… — Christopher Paolini
Publication - is the auction of the mind... — Emily Dickinson
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs — Will Rogers
Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte
What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population… — Maxwell Perkins
God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves.… — Iain Pears
I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town. — Rita Mae Brown
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my… — Al Franken
Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well. — Thomas Friedman
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books,… — Seth Godin
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. — Seth Godin
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad… — Lev Grossman
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton
For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the… — Sloane Crosley
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters. — Alan Dershowitz
My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I… — Junot Diaz
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information. — James Dyson
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. — Dave Eggers

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