Publishing Quotes

329 quotes by 273 authors

Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and… — Susan Wiggs
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less… — Clay Shirky
Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing. — Adriana Trigiani
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like… — Chad Harbach
I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and… — Stephenie Meyer
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be… — Lincoln Child
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the… — Charles Lamb
What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to… — William Hazlitt
Editing is the most companionable form of education. — Ed Weeks
Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth. — Thomas Browne
I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped. — Daniel Berrigan
A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was… — Calvin Trillin
Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in… — Al-Waleed bin Talal
Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move… — John Lescroart
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive. — Tea Obreht
So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a… — Clay Shirky
We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving… — Madison Grant
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes. — Sean Parker
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times. — Joely Richardson
Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you write because you… — Peter S. Beagle

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