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• I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Book, Thinking

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• Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

  Thomas Friedman

  World, Flats, Wells

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• I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Information, Search Engine

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• My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Past, Stories

  "Battling my way to a Pulitzer Prize novel" by Junot Diaz, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2009.

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• I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Hate, Book, Rights

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• For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thinking, Publishing House, Two

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• Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

  Paulo Coelho

  Birthday, Age, Kind

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• When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.

  Alan Garner

  Writing, Simple, World

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• When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

  Margaret Atwood

  School, Magazines, Kind

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• As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.

  Julian Assange

  Successful, Pipeline, Gaps

  "An Interview With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange". Interview with Andy Greenberg, www.forbes.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

  Alice Hoffman

  School, People, Community

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• I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Funny, Stupid, Thinking

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• 'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Book, Writing

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• One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Fashion, Art, New York

  "Good sense and black lace stilettos" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2006.

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• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Grief, Dirty, Book

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• When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Thinking, People, Insane

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• I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Book, Reading, Years

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 1 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

  Alan Moore

  Growing, Bigs, Distrust

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s 'Toxic Cloud' And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.

  Hannes Alfven

  Science, Ideas, Conflict

  "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 197, 1998.

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• The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Self, Tunes

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

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• A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said anything yet about the good guy? Because I know you spend so much time with the bad guys.' Because they're fun. So then you have to make the good guy fun, in order to compete. That's the challenge.

  Elmore Leonard

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

  Mary Karr

  Years, Overnight Success

  "Mary Karr writes up a storm with 'Cherry'". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2001.

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• I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Writing, Hands

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• I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

  Elton John

  Mean, Income, Records

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• I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing. . . If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, People, Use

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.64, Macmillan

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