Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
New information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed from the beginning so that everyone can use them. Given the explosive growth in the use of the World Wide Web for publishing, electronic commerce, lifelong learning and the delivery of government services, it is vital that the Web be accessible to everyone.
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
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.
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.
What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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