Publication Quotes - Page 8

• The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Mean, Wish

  "Harlan Ellison, Part Two". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 08, 2008.

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• What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, or making subjects play their assigned roles (the poor as passive victims, celebrities as glamorous) are hardly adequate responses. In fact, these might be reasons to ask for the help of amateurs who do not know how to stylize their imagery and are not interested in making a publication seem more palatable to its potential consumers.

  Fred Ritchin

  Opportunity, Play, Covering

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Morning, Mistake, Player

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• The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow to left-wing word police and militant propagandists who demand unfettered illegal immigration. Last week, in the wake of angry protests against the publication, vandals threw paint bombs and spray-painted graffiti on its offices.

  Michelle Malkin

  Fire, Wings, Office

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• An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.

  Miranda July

  Nice, Book, Years

  Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• [M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through its various page-proof passes-ranks among the most unnerving of my young life. It has not felt good, or freeing. It has felt nerve-shreddingly disquieting. Publication simply allows one that much more to worry about. This cannot be said to aspiring writers often or sternly enough. Whatever they carry within themselves they believe publication cures will not, I can all but guarantee, be cured. You just wind up with new diseases.

  Tom Bissell

  Believe, Book, Editing

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• RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox

  Cameron Crowe

  Mailboxes, Remains

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• Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Cracked

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.26, Anchor

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• The funny thing is that some reviews are published in magazines and websites that are seen by millions of people, and other reviews are in very small publications or less popular websites, and you just have to be lucky to have the good reviews land in places where more people see them, and bad reviews land in places where they will be less seen.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Land, Funny Things, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when you want to get that publication in The New York Times or wherever? It encourages people to play right into it.

  Carl Hart

  New York, Play, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most of the photographs I make are personal pictures and never end up in print. Even the magazines I shoot for on assignment publish very few of the actual selects. Sometimes these personal pictures will end up in a book of my work. Oftentimes, however, they are simply photographs which I hope resonate, yet rarely find a publication home. I do a lot of personal work in Rio de Janeiro, and this of a parkour artist making a jump on Ipanema Beach is such a moment.

  David Alan Harvey

  Beach, Book, Home

  "The Most Extraordinary Photos You've Never Seen" by Elizabeth Griffin, www.esquire.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Though it does seem like I have written an immense amount of work, over the years I have pushed the pause button. I have poems that I haven't sent out for publication, mostly based on political/social issues.

  Denise Duhamel

  Years, Issues, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
  [Referring to the trouble he had with the peer reviewers of Anglo-American astrophysical journals because his ideas often conflicted with the generally accepted or “standard"” theories.]

  Hannes Alfven

  Ideas, Peers, Conflict

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• The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Numbers, Jewels, Groceries

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• I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.

  Andrea Thompson

  Art, Apology, Black And White

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• The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.

  Jay Asher

  Sweet, Journey, Long

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.290, Penguin

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• An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Perfection, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.28, Harvard University Press

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• Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

  Mason Cooley

  Haste, Leisure, Repent

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• With all thy getting, get understanding, is the banner under which these Forbes editorials have appeared since the first issue of the publication. We have no illusions about what great wealth can do and what it cannot do. We believe in the worthwhileness of striving by all worthy means to attain success and to attain wealth. Simply because we are convinced that no amount of money is worth the sacrifice of one's better instincts, of one's self-respect-of one's soul, if you wish-simply because we are convinced that riches not gained legitimately and decently are not worth having.

  B. C. Forbes

  Believe, Mean, Sacrifice

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• I've been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications - the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.

  Bill Watterson

  School, Kids, Yearbook

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom.

  John Adams

  Wisdom, Opportunity, May

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.158

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• Because I would never work for a niche publication or a niche program on television and because I am a journalist and not an opinion person, my job is to try to see how many different points of view I can represent or how. It's not even a question of who you don't offend because you are always going to offend somebody. The question is how can you get people to listen to the information you have to present.

  Gwen Ifill

  Jobs, Views, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• ... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.

  Jack Paar

  Funny, Two, California

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• I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political stuff. I write a weekly feature. I express myself. But when time comes to make music [with the] same absolutely unleashing of total honesty zero inhibitions, it just flows like a stream of conscientiousness because I will not be silenced no matter what my point might be.

  Ted Nugent

  Zero, Honesty, Writing

  "Ted Nugent Exclusive All Access Interview Motor City Madman Shutup & Jam P2". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I really bridled when Parks And Rec became popular and woodworking publications wanted me to do stuff with them.

  Nick Offerman

  Woodworking, Parks And Rec, Stuff

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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