Publishing Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

  Dick Bruna

  Two Sides, Sides

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• The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Thinking, Evil, Liberty

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.89, TAN Books

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• It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

  Jackson Browne

  Years, Fifteen, More Money

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• I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

  Marguerite Young

  Years, Careers, Willing

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• In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  New York, Writing, Fiction

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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's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Book, Twilight, Writing

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• I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

  George Stigler

  Theory

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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• Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.

  Trip Hawkins

  Games, Film, Economy

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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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• There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.

  James Frey

  Art, Landscape, Categories

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• I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.

  Teyana

  Company, My Own

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• I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

  Vince Flynn

  Blessed, Publishing House, Editors

  "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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• The Avengers films, ideally, in the grand plan are always big, giant linchpins. It’s like as it was in publishing, when each of the characters would go on their own adventures and then occasionally team up for a big, 12-issue mega-event. Then they would go back into their own comics, and be changed from whatever that event was. I envision the same thing occurring after this movie, because the Avengers roster is altered by the finale of this film.

  Kevin Feige

  Team, Adventure, Character

  "Avengers 3 Team Will Be Altered by Age of Ultron Ending" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 27, 2014.

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• Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.

  Susan Wiggs

  Wall, Men, Essence

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• Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Book, World, Clubs

  Interview with Margo Hammond, Ellen Heltzel, www.goodhousekeeping.com. August 1, 2005.

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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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• 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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• I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Book, Rejection, Three

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• My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.

  Lincoln Child

  Jobs, New York, Book

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• What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.

  Joni Rodgers

  Book, Self, Tails

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• A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Doe, Favour

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.288

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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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