Publishing Quotes - Page 12

• Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little frightening to me right now is the fact that it feels so entirely opposed to the privacy that is writing.

  Garth Greenwell

  Writing, Thinking, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's true that in Romanian I feel more relaxed, as if I'm wearing slippers...but I came to this decision primarily for other reasons: I had only published three collections of texts in Romania. Even before my exile I was prohibited from publishing, I was ignored and forgotten. In going back to Romanian I had the opportunity to take my revenge.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Revenge, Opportunity, Decision

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no one else could publish, or publish equally well. So there's that.

  Lorin Stein

  Magazines, Wells, Needed

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• It's so exciting when a book catches traction you didn't even expect (or completely did expect!), and so frustrating when a book never quite catches the traction you know it deserves. But either way it doesn't change the book, it doesn't change how much I love that book, or how thrilled I am to be publishing it.

  Danielle Dutton

  Book, Never Quit, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To my knowledge nobody - no one who is publishing papers in the main field of AI - is even working on consciousness. I think there are some neuroscientists who are trying to understand it, but I'm not aware that they've made any progress.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Thinking, Progress, Trying

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 9, 2015.

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• That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

  Jim Harrison

  Funny, Beautiful, Old Buildings

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Editing is the most companionable form of education.

  Ed Weeks

  Editing, Form

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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