Publishing Quotes - Page 14

• Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Book, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson, Martin Alfred Larson (1981). “Jefferson: Magnificent Populist”, Robert B Luce

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• On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing
  the list so I can milk it.

  Warren Buffett

  Phones, Giving, Way

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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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• Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing new voices in addition to delivering freaky-fresh work from established writers.

  Karen Russell

  Voice, People, House

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• It's so exciting when a book catches traction you didn't even expect (or completely did expect!), and so frustrating when a book never quite catches the traction you know it deserves. But either way it doesn't change the book, it doesn't change how much I love that book, or how thrilled I am to be publishing it.

  Danielle Dutton

  Book, Never Quit, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them go to college. They educated the boys, and the girls had to struggle.

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Struggle, Boys

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 1, 2012.

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• Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.

  Hugo Black

  Mean, Justice, Constitution

  "Associated Press v. United States, 326 U.S. 1". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 18, 1945.

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• It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for the book publishing industry. You've heard some of the titles. 'Big Lies,' 'The Lies of George W. Bush,' 'The Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.' I'd like to tell you I've read each of these books, but that'd be a lie.

  George W. Bush

  Liars, Lying, Book

  "War no joke for Bush at correspondents' dinner". edition.cnn.com. May 2, 2004.

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• That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to profit from his songs. So what if he is a better singer than a songwriter; let's put him in a room with a real songwriter. Something great is bound to come...except very often nothing great comes out of such contrived match-ups. Nobody knows where a great song comes from, and that's why so many writers credit the Lord as a co-writer (though I notice they never offer Him half the writer's royalties) when they come up with a real gem.

  Michael Kosser

  Song, Real, Writing

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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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• It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.

  Denis Dutton

  Mistake, Talking, Play

  "Denis Dutton dies; author, philosopher, brother to L.A. booksellers" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 28, 2010.

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• It's true that in Romanian I feel more relaxed, as if I'm wearing slippers...but I came to this decision primarily for other reasons: I had only published three collections of texts in Romania. Even before my exile I was prohibited from publishing, I was ignored and forgotten. In going back to Romanian I had the opportunity to take my revenge.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Revenge, Opportunity, Decision

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little frightening to me right now is the fact that it feels so entirely opposed to the privacy that is writing.

  Garth Greenwell

  Writing, Thinking, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

  Jack Kirby

  Art, Men, Literature

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Reality, Space

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20,2010.

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• I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Thinking, Light

  "Steve Martin: The Powells.com Interview". Interview with Jill Owens, www.powells.com. November 29, 2010.

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• If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.

  Axl Rose

  Song, Art, Thinking

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• The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era.

  Vantile Whitfield

  Eras, Stuck, Industry

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• Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.

  Vantile Whitfield

  Real, Opportunity, Great Men

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• You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.

  Sean Lennon

  Attention, Pay, Term

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

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• I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.

  Natalie Merchant

  Song, Use

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

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• Basically, there's a good friend of mine who works at EMI Publishing, a publishing company. He had asked me - he was like, you know, do you know this girl, Amy Winehouse? She's in New York for a day. She's kind of meeting people to maybe work with on her second album.

  Mark Ronson

  Girl, New York, Good Friend

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20 years ago when the desktop publishing revolution came about that allowed people with Macintosh's at home to produce professional-looking newsletters or publications for the first time. So, there's a long march toward more democratization for design.

  Khoi Vinh

  Home, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Zero, Media, Way

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When people warn me about someone - the label head or the publishing head - that somebody is difficult, I'm in heaven.

  Carol Friedman

  People, Heaven, Labels

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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