Publish Quotes - Page 13

• [Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Real, Greed, Lists

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mean, Voice, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring.

  Laura Kuenssberg

  Promise, Return, Tomorrow

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• Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You have more situations where you take the offer or don't get published or you learn to self-publish.

  Eden Robinson

  Mean, Self, Situation

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, People

  "Margaret Atwood on green rabbits, writing sex and Twitter". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 9, 2009.

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• It is clearly important for all leadership candidates to be open and transparent about their tax affairs. I was very happy to publish mine today, and hope others will follow suit.

  Theresa May

  Important, Today, Suits

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lonely, Stars, Home

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• I have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around." The publishing world is a business, but it's not any big deal. An editor is not your guru. Your agent is not your guru.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Writing, Editors

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• People who travel in China tell me that the mood there is still very upbeat, because their media is different from our media. Chinese media emphasize how well things are going and suppress the bad news and publish the good news.

  Freeman Dyson

  Media, People, Chinese

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to take on those topics, whether or not I publish the poems.

  Denise Duhamel

  Writing, Trying, Topics

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

  Dr. Seuss

  Book, Relief, Needs

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• Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Writing, Optimistic

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• There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, Doing You, World

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• For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only an option. I might publish this, I might not. I think if I had to publish it, I might panic.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Writing, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

  Stephen King

  Might, Good Enough, Periods

  "The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing house wanted to publish my books, and I wasn't known in the Western world because of my political positions.

  Hassan Blasim

  Book, Publishing House, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Writing, Done, Pieces

  Thomas Wolfe (1952). “Selections from the works of Thomas Wolfe”

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• I actually wanted to publish [ interview with Donald Trump about Citizen Kane] in the New York Times, but the circumstances under which I did that movie made me vulnerable to a lawsuit and at this point in my career, I don't want to go there. But it's amazing.

  Errol Morris

  New York, Careers, Citizens

  Source: collider.com

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• There hasn't been a lot written about it in the Western media. But in the Arab world, and Western Asia as a whole, Baghdad was always known as a famously bookish, intellectual city. There's an old saying that Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, and Baghdad reads.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Writing, Media, Cities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Poet

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• Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the Stephen King of the genre. Your book is hot. Thanks for letting me read it. Anyone who doesn't want to publish it is a fool. Anyway, since I know it's your birthday, and I also know you never remember to back anything up, here's a little something I made for you. It would be a shame if Ransom My Heart got lost before it ever saw the light of day because your hard drive crashed. See you tonight. Love, Michael

  Meg Cabot

  Kings, Book, Heart

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• I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Book, Different, Magazines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Book, Hotel, Company

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Office, Fake, Promotion

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• I want our children's children to be free to walk safely down the street, girls to attend school, and women to work. I hope we continue to have freedom to wear what we want, worship how we want, study what we want, publish what we want while assuming personal responsibility for one's moral character.

  Julie Carmen

  Girl, Children, School

  "The Right to Follow Your Bliss" by Julie Carmen, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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