Publishing Quotes - Page 20

• I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Behind You, Company

  "We heart YA" blog Interview, www.weheartya.com. June 13, 2013.

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• Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who seemed to think I could write something worth publishing was my loyal husband. But I always remembered the professor from graduate school who urged me to write and who recommended me for that first writing assignment in 1964. When I protested to Sara Little that I didn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world, she gently reminded me that if I didn't dare mediocrity, I would never write anything at all.

  Katherine Paterson

  Husband, Writing, School

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?

  Bruce Sterling

  Form, Results, Okay

  "Transcript of reboot 11 speech by Bruce Sterling, 25-6-2009". www.wired.com. February 25, 2011.

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• Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a classmate, someone who shares your interests. Before sending off the manuscript for a novel to a publishing house, it would be a good idea to try writing short stories, and publishing them in a local magazine.

  Dacia Maraini

  Writing, Publishing House, Ideas

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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• Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're writing about the temperature of the water in some part (they don't specify which) of some damaged reactor, illustrating it with video screen grabs of machinery they don't understand enough to explain.

  Tim Bray

  Recovery, Writing, Heart

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• One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

  John Kinsella

  People, Done, Impossible

  Source: www.cmc.ie

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• The name Bei Dao was actually given to me with the help of friends. When we were publishing our unofficial magazine, Today, we wanted to avoid being harassed by the police so we were trying to think of names that we could use. It was done very casually.

  Bei Dao

  Thinking, Names, Police

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.

  Jasmine Cresswell

  Thinking, Publishing House, Support

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• The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have been pampered enough myself to know how it can make your life too frictionless.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Fellowship, Foundation, Enough

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.

  Ben Clymer

  Independent, Voice, People

  "Careers In Fashion". Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com.

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• I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.

  Kate Zambreno

  Thinking, Space, Online

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

  Taiye Selasi

  Writing, Ambition, Eight

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• I love the good old book with glue and binding, I really do, but that is just one way of experiencing text, and suddenly we have so many new ways, including our laptops, our phones, our watches. People in my generation agonize over this. People much younger than me don't agonize at all. They just go ahead and find ways to transform publishing.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Book, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous of their autonomy, sensitive to the needs of writers and to the diverse interests of readers. If money were their primary goal, these people would probably have chosen other careers.

  Jason Epstein

  Book, Jealous, Careers

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• I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

  Eric Alterman

  Believe, America, Imagination

  "Out of Print " by Eric Alterman, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2008.

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• A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing, higher education, philanthropy, and media... these individuals exercise a preponderant influence over what is passed off as public information and democratic discourse.

  Michael Parenti

  Exercise, Media, Banking

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• The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.

  Ishmael Reed

  Art, New York, Book

  Ishmael Reed (1982). “God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays”, Scholarly Title

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• I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.

  David Rees

  Hate, Real, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle of a big transition, and that the rules of the game are still sorting themselves out.

  Brad Listi

  Optimistic, Games, Transition

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

  George Singleton

  Writing, Trying, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The other reason I didn't want to fictionalize it is because one of the main points of publishing a memoir in nonfiction was that I wanted to write about what had been a very lonely experience. The books that most saved my life as a kid were the ones that articulated lonely experiences that I had thought were mine alone.

  Melissa Febos

  Lonely, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.

  Andrew Latimer

  Book, Excited

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write it as nonfiction happened at the very outset of the process, because the overwhelming impetus for writing this book was to understand what the experience meant, and to override my own reductions and rationalizations, whatever story I had that was not true. It didn't sit well with me and I needed to answer that. That's sort of the reason I write everything.

  Melissa Febos

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

  David Benioff

  People, Waiting, Suggestions

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