Publishing Quotes

329 quotes by 270 authors

Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication has been good… — Paul Theroux
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if… — Dorothy Parker
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly… — Hunter S. Thompson
Hatori: "SHIGURE... I WILL TELL EVERYONE IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT YOU, STARTING FROM WHEN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS OLD..." Shigure: "Sorry,… — Natsuki Takaya
There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't… — J D Salinger
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my… — J D Salinger
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land,… — Margaret Atwood
I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection letter". This is… — James Dashner
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of… — Umberto Eco
Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors. — Dan Brown
Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to… — Paul Goodman
I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the free exercise of… — Unknown Author
I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The… — Eric Schmidt
For all of us involved in preaching the gospel, performing music, publishing Christian materials, and all the rest, there is an uncomfortable message here: Jesus… — Jim Cymbala
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a… — Alfred Kazin
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an… — Nathan Myhrvold
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an… — Bruce Feiler
Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it. — Nick Bostrom
With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people… — Felix Dennis

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