Publishing Quotes - Page 9

• Editing is the most companionable form of education.

  Ed Weeks

  Editing, Form

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• Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

  Thomas Browne

  Printed

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.4

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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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• Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

  Jan Karon

  Toxic, Deadline

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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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• I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

  Solomon Burke

  Needs, Records, Enough

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• Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

  Aidan Chambers

  Book, Writing, People

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• I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Thinking, Ships

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• When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.

  Kiran Desai

  Mother, Growing Up, Book

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

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• All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Block, Doors

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

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• I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

  Barry Diller

  Transition, Firsts, Ifs

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• Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

  Barry Diller

  Ideas, Miracle, Buttons

  CEO Forum: Media mogul Diller on Twitter, Ticketmaster, etc., www.usatoday.com. April 30, 2009.

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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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• The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Two, May, New Testament

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. VIII, The Age Of Discoveries, p. 87, 1949.

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• Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

  Barry Eisler

  Book, Writing, Self

  "Barry Eisler Explains Self-Publishing Decision". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.thedailybeast.com. March 24, 2011.

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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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• 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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• The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.

  James Daly

  Business, People, Magazines

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