Publishing Quotes - Page 22

• As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Writing, Practice

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. 2007.

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• A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Keys, Pay, Attention

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• Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

  Rudy Rucker

  Book, Fall, Rude

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. August 27, 2002.

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• The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

  William Targ

  Book, Writing, People

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• Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Publicity, Sometimes, Promotion

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• Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.

  Peter Hammill

  Song, Couple, Europe

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• I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.

  Cilla Black

  Thinking, Years, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

  John Lescroart

  Couple, Book, Anecdotes

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• If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Ideas, Industry, Ifs

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Significant, 1960s, Fewer

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.

  Graham Joyce

  Interesting, Fairytale, Spices

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• Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind the jocks - once we came up with these key characters in a cloud of marijuana, the whole thing just came together. One of the things I'm really proud of is how much of a high-school yearbook it is in its look, so much so that Hunter Publishing had the art director, David Kaestle, and I come for years to their annual convention and do a little talk on how not to do a yearbook.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Girl, Art, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Bill Jensen] 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, Work Out, Bills

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

  Ai Weiwei

  Photography, Art, People

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• WikiLeaks has been publishing for ten years, and in those ten years, we have published ten million documents, several thousand individual publications, several thousand different sources, and we have never got it wrong.

  Julian Assange

  Years, Different, Wikileaks

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

  Don Marquis

  Moving, Reading, Writing

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• To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

  Maria Mitchell

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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• I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

  Manuel Puig

  North Wind, America, United States

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• Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point where one cannot change it is to greatly enhance the prospects of never publishing.

  Richard North Patterson

  Falling In Love, Writing, Character

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• Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others.

  David Meerman Scott

  Agency, Web Content, Self

  David Meerman Scott (2010). “The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Blogs, News Releases, Online Video, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly”, p.286, John Wiley & Sons

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• People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, People, Google

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• I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

  Rick James

  Rapper, Artist, Dollars

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Jul 27, 2012

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• I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.

  Dorothy Parker

  Two, Adorable, Together

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Nice, Writing, Attention

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.214, Shambhala Publications

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• The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick

  Philosophy, Men, Law

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