Publishing Quotes - Page 20

• Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, they're one of the main forces keeping publishing in this country a primary white middle-class industry, which has a direct knock-on effect on what gets published and how.

  Deborah Smith

  Country, Class, White

  Source: thequietus.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue.

  Deborah Smith

  Stars, Awards, Focus

  Source: thequietus.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.

  Ben Fountain

  Eight, Years, Effort

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Magazines, Want

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.

  Van Jones

  Dream, Book, Son

  Source: aalbc.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign], the Ecuadorian election is in February next year, and you have the White House feeling the political heat as a result of the true information that we have been publishing.

  Julian Assange

  Years, White, Giving

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did. He shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Doors, Two, Work Out

  Source: churchleaders.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing, higher education, philanthropy, and media... these individuals exercise a preponderant influence over what is passed off as public information and democratic discourse.

  Michael Parenti

  Exercise, Media, Banking

  22 Copy quote

• One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.

  Andrew Latimer

  Book, Excited

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love the good old book with glue and binding, I really do, but that is just one way of experiencing text, and suddenly we have so many new ways, including our laptops, our phones, our watches. People in my generation agonize over this. People much younger than me don't agonize at all. They just go ahead and find ways to transform publishing.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Book, People

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

  Clement Freud

  Gambling, Guides, Shops

  4 Copy quote

• New information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed from the beginning so that everyone can use them. Given the explosive growth in the use of the World Wide Web for publishing, electronic commerce, lifelong learning and the delivery of government services, it is vital that the Web be accessible to everyone.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Technology, Government

  61 Copy quote

• Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

  Eric Alterman

  Believe, America, Imagination

  "Out of Print " by Eric Alterman, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2008.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

  David Benioff

  People, Waiting, Suggestions

  4 Copy quote

• The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.

  Ishmael Reed

  Art, New York, Book

  Ishmael Reed (1982). “God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays”, Scholarly Title

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.

  Jasmine Cresswell

  Thinking, Publishing House, Support

  4 Copy quote

• The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have been pampered enough myself to know how it can make your life too frictionless.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Fellowship, Foundation, Enough

  Source: www.believermag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.

  Ben Clymer

  Independent, Voice, People

  "Careers In Fashion". Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write it as nonfiction happened at the very outset of the process, because the overwhelming impetus for writing this book was to understand what the experience meant, and to override my own reductions and rationalizations, whatever story I had that was not true. It didn't sit well with me and I needed to answer that. That's sort of the reason I write everything.

  Melissa Febos

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The other reason I didn't want to fictionalize it is because one of the main points of publishing a memoir in nonfiction was that I wanted to write about what had been a very lonely experience. The books that most saved my life as a kid were the ones that articulated lonely experiences that I had thought were mine alone.

  Melissa Febos

  Lonely, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.

  Kate Zambreno

  Thinking, Space, Online

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

  George Singleton

  Writing, Trying, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle of a big transition, and that the rules of the game are still sorting themselves out.

  Brad Listi

  Optimistic, Games, Transition

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.

  David Rees

  Hate, Real, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source