Posterity Quote by George Ade Download Open image ““After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.”” — George Ade ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Posterity Writing
“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.” — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
“Readers have some peculiar notions about the status of writers, the most foolish of which is that writers are treated like royalty by their… — Reed Farrel Coleman Copy Share Image
“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to be one of those writers a publisher will publish just to make a buck. I want to be a writer… — Steven Lloyd Copy Share Image
“I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“And if publishers are too skittish to bite—sell it as goddamn fiction. Make yourself the author and change the names if necessary. Do whatever… — Joshua V. Scher Copy Share Image
“Writing is about you. Publishing is about the book. Marketing is about the reader.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.” — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive… — George Ade Copy Share Image
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months. — George Ade Copy Share Image
Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking. — George Ade Copy Share Image
I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily,… — George Ade Copy Share Image
Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit… — George Ade Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselves thus much, you do… — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will… — Pierre De Fermat Copy Share Image
May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had. — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
