Publishing Quotes

329 quotes by 273 authors

But once you publish a book, doesnâ€™t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldnâ€™t we just write books and print them… — Jonathan Evison
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing. — Evgeny Morozov
I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood. — Mac Davis
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one… — Jonathan Messinger
People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that… — Neil Gaiman
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already… — Anita Diament
Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of… — Steven Amsterdam
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing.… — Tim Cahill
There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done… — Chuck Palahniuk
I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It… — Nell Freudenberger
It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to… — George Bernard Shaw
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations... — George Orwell
Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button. — Clay Shirky
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being… — Ashwin Sanghi
A comic book publisher says he's trying to increase voter turnout in the presidential election by publishing comic books about John McCain and Barack Obama.… — Conan O'Brien
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose.… — Kieron Gillen
Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get… — Kieron Gillen
I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one,… — Adrian Mitchell

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