Publishing Quotes - Page 14

• I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

  Anita Diament

  Book, Editors, Stories

  7 Copy quote

• No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one of the most impactful influences on American writers, even if they don't know it. That's largely because she makes economy seem so easy. You could read several of her stories into a friend's voicemail box before you were cut off (and you should). You could fit one of her stories in this column. Some you could write on your palm.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Writing, Cutting, Years

  4 Copy quote

• I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

  Mac Davis

  Hollywood, Company

  4 Copy quote

• Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Book, Ends, Ought

  Evgeny Morozov (2014). “To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism”, p.166, PublicAffairs

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of all the climatologists whose careers depend on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles — yes, I could read that, but I don't believe it.

  Larry Bucshon

  Believe, Careers, Climate

  6 Copy quote

• The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

  Lynn Abbey

  Literature, Decent, Entry

  4 Copy quote

• The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.

  Peter Chernin

  Opportunity, America, Groups

  16 Copy quote

• As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Writing, Opportunity, Self

  6 Copy quote

• A comic book publisher says he's trying to increase voter turnout in the presidential election by publishing comic books about John McCain and Barack Obama. Yeah, the publisher said that the election comic books are targeted at first-time voters and long-time virgins.

  Conan O'Brien

  Book, Long, Presidential

  4 Copy quote

• The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  New York, Lying, Bigs

  11 Copy quote

• The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.

  John Hall Wheelock

  Jobs, Publishing House, Editors

  6 Copy quote

• What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Book, Twilight, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

  Kiran Desai

  World, Reader

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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  New York, Writing, Fiction

  4 Copy quote

• The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Thinking, Evil, Liberty

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.89, TAN Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

  Dick Bruna

  Two Sides, Sides

  4 Copy quote

• I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

  Max Cannon

  Break

  4 Copy quote

• Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age. Its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Character, Phones, People

  4 Copy quote

• He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

  Shimon Peres

  Teacher, Men, Publishing House

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Sports, Stars, Book

  8 Copy quote

• Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

  Tommy Rettig

  Mother, Song, Writing

  8 Copy quote

• The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Country, War, Reading

  7 Copy quote

• I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of judges every year keeps it from becoming corrupt. I think it's very difficult if you've got judges for life; obviously relationships are cultivated between judges and authors, and publishing houses.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Change, Integrity, Thinking

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when" By Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

  Dennis O'Neil

  Media, Anomalies, Venture

  4 Copy quote

• Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.

  Kieron Gillen

  Self, Spirit, Comic Book

  4 Copy quote