Publishing Quotes - Page 5

• Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

  Paulo Coelho

  Birthday, Age, Kind

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• For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thinking, Publishing House, Two

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• I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Hate, Book, Rights

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• My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Past, Stories

  "Battling my way to a Pulitzer Prize novel" by Junot Diaz, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2009.

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• I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Information, Search Engine

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• I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Publishing House, Editors

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• 360 deals are the new things of the industry. It's not about selling records; it's about selling T-shirts, getting a piece of your publishing, getting a piece of your touring, and all these other kind of properties.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Pieces, Records, Kind

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• Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.

  Al Franken

  School, Government, Careers

  Al Franken (2004). “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, p.6, Penguin

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• Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

  Thomas Friedman

  World, Flats, Wells

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• I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Book, Thinking

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• When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Thinking, People, Insane

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• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Grief, Dirty, Book

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• One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Fashion, Art, New York

  "Good sense and black lace stilettos" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2006.

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• I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

  Eric Schmidt

  Business, Real, Believe

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• I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Hate, Publishing House, Novelists

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• The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!

  Will Self

  Jobs, Years, Two

  "My Other Life: Will Self". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection letter". This is basically what a rejection letter is like: Hello Pathetic Moron, We read your book. It sucked. Don't send us another one. If you do, we will run over your grandmother with a bus. Don't Do It. From, Your Publisher

  James Dashner

  Running, Book, Grandmother

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• I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Funny, Stupid, Thinking

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• Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

  Tucker Max

  Book, Mean, World

  "Attention, Authors: I Tripled My Royalties, and You Can Too" by Tucker Max, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

  Peter Shaffer

  Play, Flesh, Process

  Peter Shaffer (2011). “Equus”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever the reasons, 2008 it felt as though the combination of distribution models starting to tighten and the publishing and film and music industries having to revolutionize themselves to catch up, and understand how this is going to work in the new millennium has made it a lot easier to pursue multi-platform careers. It's much easier to hire one person who can do three or four different things than one specialist in that field.

  John Buffalo Mailer

  Different, Film, Reason

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

  Felix Dennis

  Advice, Scratches, Empires

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• For all of us involved in preaching the gospel, performing music, publishing Christian materials, and all the rest, there is an uncomfortable message here: Jesus is not terribly impressed with religious commercialism

  Jim Cymbala

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

  Jane Smiley

  Years, Laughing, Bars

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• Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

  Felix Dennis

  Men, Magazines, Good Business

  "Beating the big boys at their own game" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2005.

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