Daunting tasks Quote by Olivia Goldsmith

Publishing is a tough business.

— Carole Radziwill

Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.

— Katharine Viner

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Getting your work published is a major struggle.

— Gulzar

The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but…

— Vannevar Bush

Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books…

— Olivia Goldsmith

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

— Michael Crichton

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

— Umberto Eco

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

— Dan Brown

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to…

— Colson Whitehead

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

— Anonymous

There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is…

— Denise Mina