Publishing Quotes

329 quotes by 270 authors

Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is… — Robert Lipsyte
If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of.… — Peter Sotos
I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career. — Marguerite Young
It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't… — Patrick Rothfuss
And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing. — Christy Carlson Romano
Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the… — S. Robson Walton
Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic. — Jan Karon
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book. — Tibor Fischer
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write,… — Wendy Cope
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such… — Leslie Fiedler
McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a… — Dave Eggers
With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else. — Marco Arment
Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club… — Iain Banks
I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd… — Solomon Burke
Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and… — Aidan Chambers
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing. — Daniel Clowes
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of… — Kiran Desai
All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are… — Ava DuVernay
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing. — Barry Diller
Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the… — Barry Diller

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