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• I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.

  Chad Harbach

  Mean, People, Support

  "Universities Gain Power In Literary World". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 12, 2010.

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• The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

  Kiran Desai

  World, Reader

  "Kiran Desai on the Costs Of Literary Celebrity" by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. April 21, 2007.

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• What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Light, Succeed, Looks

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.23

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• Editing is the most companionable form of education.

  Ed Weeks

  Editing, Form

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• I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Interview with Alan Fox, www.rattle.com. January 30, 1999.

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• A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

  Calvin Trillin

  Book, Writing, Lunch

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Real, Media, Doe

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

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• Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

  Tibor Fischer

  Book, Criticism, Bother

  "Better than Amis?" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2003.

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• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  Wendy Cope

  Writing, Two, Upset

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• I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Sex, Thinking, Literature

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• McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Design, Effort

  "Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.

  Marco Arment

  Two, Magazines, Months

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• Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

  Iain Banks

  Player, Years, Gentleman

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Interview with Michael Parsons, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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• As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Writing, Opportunity, Self

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• With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.

  Clay Shirky

  Data, Digital, Problem

  "Clay Shirky analyzes the newspaper Holocaust" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. March 14, 2009.

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• There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

  Vince Flynn

  Book, Writing, Slapping

  "Vince Flynn Talks 'The Last Man,' His Newest Mitch Rapp Best-Seller (Q&A)". Interview With Andy Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 10, 2012.

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• At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

  Joseph Kanon

  Jobs, New York, Firsts

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• The highlight of my career was my first sale, to F&SF, in 1989. Nothing yet has topped that moment. I was weeping in joy and relief. Publishing one story was all that I ever wanted, or expected. Everything since then - award nominations, getting into best-of anthologies, meeting my idols at conventions, drinking with my idols at conventions - has been wonderful, but it's all gravy.

  Daryl Gregory

  Drinking, Joy, Wonderful

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• I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of judges every year keeps it from becoming corrupt. I think it's very difficult if you've got judges for life; obviously relationships are cultivated between judges and authors, and publishing houses.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Change, Integrity, Thinking

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when" By Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com.

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• The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Country, War, Reading

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• Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

  Tommy Rettig

  Mother, Song, Writing

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• While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Sports, Stars, Book

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• He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

  Shimon Peres

  Teacher, Men, Publishing House

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age. Its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Character, Phones, People

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• I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

  Max Cannon

  Break

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