Publishing Quotes - Page 3

• There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

  J. D. Salinger

  Attitude, Writing, Men

  "Salinger: A Biography". Book by Paul Alexander, 2000.

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• I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start

  Anne McCaffrey

  Encouragement, Media, Needs

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• It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But honestly, those folks are lucky as lottery winners.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Mean, Self

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• I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks good on paper: sell your books directly and keep a bigger chunk of the profit for yourself. No rejection letters. No hassle with agents. Sounds good, right?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Self, Rejection

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• Undercover investigations threw back the curtain on the systemic exploitation of animals on factory farms. The response by agribusiness interests has been to back laws that ban animal advocates from taking pictures or videos at these facilities, and ban the media from publishing any that are taken. The laws also make it a crime for animal advocates to seek employment at animal enterprises without disclosing their intentions.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Taken, Animal, Media

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Names, Long

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.

  Sammy Hagar

  Decision, Band, Management

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Jobs, Writing, Wife

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Reading, Long, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Years, Fiction, Remember

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some of the greatest classics of theater have elements of SF, but in theater, as in publishing, sometimes people make arbitrary distinctions.

  Edward Einhorn

  Thinking, People, Elements

  Source: www.tor.com

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• 51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking for a law to prevent Charlie Hebdo from publishing caricatures, but they are calling on its editors to be a bit more sensible.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Religious, Thinking, Charlie Hebdo

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• Think of it more as publishing instead of marketing.Be authentic as a publisher and create content that helps you connect to everyone else...because they're already connected.

  Mitch Joel

  Successful, Thinking, Marketing

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• I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Fun, Book, Thinking

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

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• This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

  Ann Patchett

  Jobs, Responsible, Well Being

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

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• There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.

  Gerald Petievich

  Book, Frightening, One Thing

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• Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Reality, Self, Healthy

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• Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.

  Mark Skousen

  Retirement, Book, Writing

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• We just have to go at 100 miles an hour in all our businesses, be they television broadcasting, be they magazine publishing, be they subscription television, be they online, be they gaming. We just have to go at one hundred miles an hour.

  James Packer

  Magazines, Television, Hours

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• Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with the genre that Mary Karr calls, half-facetiously, "literature's trashy cousin."

  Debra Monroe

  Cousin, Memories, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

  Frank Iero

  Book, Musician, Want

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• There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Believe, Publishing House, Ideas

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• When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

  Tanith Lee

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• If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.

  John D. MacDonald

  Would Be, Glaciers, Galloping

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