Publishing Quotes

329 quotes by 270 authors

360 deals are the new things of the industry. It's not about selling records; it's about selling T-shirts, getting a piece of your publishing, getting… — Lupe Fiasco
I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a… — Hugh Hefner
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody… — Alice Hoffman
I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work… — Rick James
I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got… — Elton John
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances… — Erica Jong
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years. — Mary Karr
A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said anything yet about… — Elmore Leonard
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' — Doris Lessing
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. — Doris Lessing
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. — Don Marquis
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to… — Don Marquis
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity. — Joyce Maynard
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard… — Maria Mitchell
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now… — Alan Moore
I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions… — Viggo Mortensen
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' — Nathan Myhrvold
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. — V.S. Naipaul
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts,… — Sarah Jessica Parker
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. — Alan Paton

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