Publish Quotes - Page 16

• I had good relationships with stores. And I was like, "All right, I'll self-publish it. But I'm only going to do 1,000."

  David Rees

  Self, Good Relationship, Stores

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no one else could publish, or publish equally well. So there's that.

  Lorin Stein

  Magazines, Wells, Needed

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was a book editor, I got used to being told that my tastes were dark or edgy. These are not words that would've occurred to me, but I was told that enough that I have to believe it's true - that I like things that some other people find off-putting or upsetting. My job is to publish stuff that I really, really care about. That might mean that it doesn't sit well with everybody.

  Lorin Stein

  Jobs, Believe, Book

  Source: therumpus.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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• As my editor had no desire to frighten readers with the Romanian pages, he had them translated and published the whole thing in French in 1984. It was only years later, in Romania, that I was able to publish the book as I wrote it.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Book, Years, Editors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it. I understand its structural flaws, and the lies it tells, which are primarily, but not always, the lies of omission, and I wasn't going to leave that out. Knopf offered to publish the book but they said that an editor was going to "take out all the negativity," which, of course, I wasn't going to accept. I had been paid half my advance, and I had Nation Books buy the manuscript for that half.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Believe, Book

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents. I think it wouldn't be great for me because all I'd really want to talk about it music and I'd rather just play it.

  Natalie Merchant

  Thinking, Years, Play

  "Paradise Is Here: An Interview With Natalie Merchant". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, livingoutli.org. April 19, 2016.

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• It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Father, Book, Hunting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

  Adrian Tomine

  Email, Addresses, Internet

  "Cover Me With Adrian Tomine". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. February 18, 2016.

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• Nobody wanted to publish a book about fairies; they said people wouldn't be interested. Luckily, I discovered Lady Cottington and her pressed fairies, which revived a huge amount of interest in fairies, so I could go ahead and do the book I wanted to do.

  Brian Froud

  Book, People, Fairy

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language, style, content, and often its author's gender. To publish it properly, in a way that makes it clear that this is art, not anthropology. To spotlight the importance of translation in making cultures less dully homogenous.

  Deborah Smith

  Art, Writing, Style

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability, but also how this intersects with, for example, issues of gender - she's campaigned for reproductive rights in her native Indonesian, and is currently studying for a PhD in disability and visual cultures at Goldsmiths. She's written a feminist, environmentalist, anti-colonialist narrative poem, with tactile artwork and a Braille translation. How could I not publish that?

  Deborah Smith

  Strong, Artist, Rights

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think in terms of educating a group of readers, MFA programs are very good. I just think the model of MFA programs in which a young poet goes through the program, publishes a series of books, gets teaching jobs, that's a bit at risk.

  Edward Hirsch

  Jobs, Book, Teaching

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It is clearly important for all leadership candidates to be open and transparent about their tax affairs. I was very happy to publish mine today, and hope others will follow suit.

  Theresa May

  Important, Today, Suits

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring.

  Laura Kuenssberg

  Promise, Return, Tomorrow

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• I want our children's children to be free to walk safely down the street, girls to attend school, and women to work. I hope we continue to have freedom to wear what we want, worship how we want, study what we want, publish what we want while assuming personal responsibility for one's moral character.

  Julie Carmen

  Girl, Children, School

  "The Right to Follow Your Bliss" by Julie Carmen, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mean, Voice, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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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 have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around." The publishing world is a business, but it's not any big deal. An editor is not your guru. Your agent is not your guru.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Writing, Editors

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• People who travel in China tell me that the mood there is still very upbeat, because their media is different from our media. Chinese media emphasize how well things are going and suppress the bad news and publish the good news.

  Freeman Dyson

  Media, People, Chinese

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• [Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Real, Greed, Lists

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You have more situations where you take the offer or don't get published or you learn to self-publish.

  Eden Robinson

  Mean, Self, Situation

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas someone who has written four books that are highly literary and demanding and require you as a reader. They may not be republished.

  Frederick Busch

  Book, Four, May

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• If a source gives us material that is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance that has not been published before and is comprised of official documents or recordings, then we will publish it.

  Julian Assange

  Giving, Political, Historical

  "We Believe in What We're Doing". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might - why my publisher would publish this book [You belong to the universe] about it long after he's dead and irrelevant by many standards has to do with the fact that he was in a sense coming up with this job for himself that is the job that we now refer to when we speak about world change.

  Jonathon Keats

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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