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• The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Art, Moments

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.194

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• Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men ... to look askance at the patenting of inventions, as if it were a rather selfish and ungracious act, essentially unworthy. The answer is very simple. Publish an invention freely, and it will almost surely die from lack of interest in its development. It will not be developed and the world will not be benefited. Patent it, and if valuable, it will be taken up and developed into a business.

  Elihu Thomson

  Selfish, Taken, Science

  "Elihu Thomas lays down principles for inventors" by Thomas, E., Electrical World 75, (p. 1505), 1920.

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• The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Successful, Men, Talking

  "Letters and social aims". Inspiration. Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1875.

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• There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.

  Alberto Moravia

  Book, Heart, Vanity

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• Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.

  Larry Elder

  Country, Media, Rights

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• There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't need an app for the web ... You don't need to go through some kind of SDK ... You can use your web tools ... And you can publish your apps to the BlackBerry without writing any native code.

  Jim Balsillie

  Writing, Iphone, Ipads

  "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" . by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.

  Charles Adams

  Book, Writing, Addiction

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• In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

  Audrey Tautou

  Law, Choices, France

  Interview, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

  Peter Sotos

  Selfish, Book, Ideas

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• I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Book, Writing, Scared

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• The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.

  Rachel Gibson

  New York, Book, Writing

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• I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Book, Years, Opposites

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• Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

  John Muir

  Nature, Wind, Rivers

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• It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

  Randy Schekman

  Impact, Average, Quality

  "How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science" by Randy Schekman, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2013.

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• When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young person whose family would object to the book to read it. Just as I would never force that person to read it, I would ask those folks to not force others not to read it. To me, that is just good manners.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Silence, Good Man

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• Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.

  James Lee Burke

  Running, Home, Writing

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• No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Men, Criticism

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• My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.

  Phil Foglio

  Character, Fighting, Hands

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• If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

  Robert B. Parker

  Writing, Parent, Want

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• The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

  Vannevar Bush

  Real, Views, Use

  "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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• I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Book, Self, Confusing

  "Guy Kawasaki Interview on His Latest Book – APE". Interview with Helen Nesterenko, writtent.com. March 10, 2017.

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• Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Writing, Finals

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• I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

  Winona Ryder

  Writing, Desire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Years, Done

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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