Publish Quotes - Page 15

• I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you know, when I die, if you ever publish these I will come back and haunt you.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect I'll have to pay to publish this myself, and I think a lot about about putting out fifty copies. I used to think about hogwash like my legacy and silly things like that. But I feel like if I never have another book out, I've done okay, I've had like twelve or thirteen little books, and I won't be upset about this on my death bed.

  Richard Meltzer

  Silly, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Want, Know How

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• I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Philosophy, Writing, Trying

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• 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, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  Wendy Cope

  Writing, Two, Upset

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• One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

  Nicholson Baker

  Book, Tunnels, Affiliation

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

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• If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Topics, Trouble, Scholar

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• When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

  Philip Roth

  Book, World, Edits

  Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992). “Conversations with Philip Roth”, p.111, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What really worries me is that those who are in positions of power are not really affected by what we are writing. In the moral dialogue you want to start, you really want to involve the leaders. People ask me: "Why were you so bold as to publish A Man of the People? How did you think the Government was going to take it? You didn't know there was going to be a coup?" I said rather flippantly that nobody was going to read it anyway, so I wasn't likely to be fired from my official position. It's a distressing thought that we cannot engage our leaders in the kind of moral debate we need.

  Chinua Achebe

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.19, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

  Campbell McGrath

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

  Bill Moyers

  Mistake, Journalism, Libel

  Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.109, Anchor

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• Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.

  Clement Attlee

  Rhyme

  "Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister" by Harold Wilson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, (p. 128), 1986.

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• Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

  Derek Bok

  University Professors, Years, Half

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• When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Book, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with David L. Ulin, latimesblogs.latimes.com. February 6, 2011.

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• I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.

  William H. Gass

  Writing, Order, Pieces

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told. In my own case, the more disturbing element is the editor-in-chief who said to me, "I think this book is terrific. It ought to be in print. I can't publish it -- I've been told I mustn't." The indication is that I'm not writing what people want to read, but I never did.

  Tanith Lee

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Tanith Lee : Love & Death & Publishers", www.locusmag.com. April 1998.

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• It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Men, Race

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• I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

  Mary Oliver

  Reading, Writing, Years

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• If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Honesty, Lying, Book

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.601, Penguin

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• The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of Independence, an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' History shows us that the Founders were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Men, Issues, Freedom Of Speech

  Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 1967.

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• A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Men, Triumph

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

  Wim Wenders

  Independent, Cutting, Lists

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

  Arthur Keith

  Opportunity, Matter, Authority

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Book, Pseudonyms, Firsts

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• I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Academic

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