Publishing Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

  Jackson Browne

  Years, Fifteen, More Money

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

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Thinking, Ships

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

  Joseph Kanon

  Jobs, New York, Firsts

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• Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.

  Trip Hawkins

  Games, Film, Economy

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• I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

  George Stigler

  Theory

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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• I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publicatio n was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Self, Rejection, Records

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• Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

  Clay Shirky

  Jobs, Buttons

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• Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

  George Orwell

  Real, Doe, Want

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• I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Done, Pieces

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 18, 2013.

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• 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.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, Writing, Editors

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• Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?

  Steven Amsterdam

  Book, Writing, Nursing

  "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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