Publishing Quotes - Page 9

• I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

  Bruce Feiler

  Writing, Library, Eras

  4 Copy quote

• Whats different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. Its all part of the suffocating spin cycle were in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

  John Avlon

  Media, Talking, Play

  4 Copy quote

• I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.

  Julian Assange

  Military, Self, Imagination

  7 Copy quote

• Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in all honesty, it's harder to be a best seller self-publishing than it is with a house.

  Amanda Hocking

  Honesty, Book, Self

  4 Copy quote

• I actually produced other people's vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort of decided that I only wanted to be a writer. I would be in all of these writing sessions, and a lot of times my publisher would say, "You should get a demo singer to sing it because then it doesn't identify as a Solange song."

  Solange Knowles

  Song, Writing, Long

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past.

  Helen Jacobs

  Successful, Past, Publishing House

  7 Copy quote

• While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Mean, Self, Expression

  25 Copy quote

• I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.

  Harper Lee

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  "All I Want To Be Is The Jane Austen Of South Alabama". Interview with Roy Newquist, www.thebluegrassspecial.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to eclipse everything. They will save traditional publishing the way DVDs saved movie studios (for a while) and they'll greatly expand the number of readers.

  Steven Pressfield

  Numbers, Dvds, Quality

  Source: goinswriter.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?

  John Cleese

  Talking, People, Literature

  "John Cleese and The Key to Comedy". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2014.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people in book publishing saw it as a weird kind of potential book. But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing.

  Paul Ford

  Book, People, Magic

  4 Copy quote

• Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to publish the kind of books I would buy, and read. My reading habits have changed since starting the press. The only other "goal", per say, is to continue to experiment. I don't want the press to ever fall into a formula, or to be pigeonholed - "They do great reissues of modernist poets!" - I want to keep pushing, exploring the kind of title we can get away with. And working with authors who challenge the way I think about writing, editing and reading.

  Andrew Latimer

  Book, Fall, Reading

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Careers, Design

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't really have that kind of off-switch.

  Irvine Welsh

  Couple, Would Be, Tvs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel like I have more experience with publishing humor than pretty much any editor I'm going to be dealing with so sometimes I'll get a little bit nuts if I write something I know is good a certain way, and some editor because of some restriction he has and wants to change it that I know is going to make it less funny that'll piss me off and then I'm inclined to go, "Well, hey I've been doing this a long time, maybe you should..." That doesn't happen that often, but I'm more likely to say that now than I would have been a long time ago. Because dammit, I'm infallible!

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Nuts, Editors

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Part of my impetus to get famous is to have access to printed matter. I love all the stuff like postcards, books, little things. I can make my own zines, but it just helps if you've got somebody behind you publishing things.

  Jack Pierson

  Book, Zines, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?

  William Gibson

  Book, Space, People

  Source: craphound.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.

  Maria Rodale

  New York, People, Passionate

  Source: www.mcall.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view of the criticism. I'm not afraid of [Albert] Camus' public. I'm afraid of what will be written in the papers.

  Catherine Camus

  Men, Views, Criticism

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking hold. I started working in 1980, the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, then the real desktop publishing only started coming around in 85-86, but it wasn't really until the end of the decade that the transition became irresistible.

  Michael Bierut

  Jobs, Real, Years

  Source: facingsideways.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• WikiLeaks does not publish from the jurisdiction of Ecuador, from this embassy or in the territory of Ecuador; we publish from France, we publish from, from Germany, we publish from The Netherlands and from a number of other countries, so that the attempted squeeze on WikiLeaks is through my refugee status; and this is, this is really intolerable. [It means] that [they] are trying to get at a publishing organisation; [they] try and prevent it from publishing true information that is of intense interest to the American people and others about an election.

  Julian Assange

  Country, Mean, Numbers

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are the Podesta emails we've been publishing. [John] Podesta is Hillary Clinton's primary campaign manager, so there's a thread that runs through all these emails; there are quite a lot of pay-for-play, as they call it, giving access in exchange for money to states, individuals and corporations.

  Julian Assange

  Running, Play, Giving

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Strong, Book, Mean

  Source: www.progressive.org

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In publishing books and winning awards, it's like you've enjoyed this meal, you know, two months ago. How long can you be nourished by thinking about it? You've already ingested it, and you've excreted it, and that was two months ago. You had this fabulous meal. It's not going to keep you satiated today. You have to go out and get your next meal. For me, that's writing. I have to go out and hunt my next meal.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Book, Writing, Winning

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Important, Three

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source