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• Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing new voices in addition to delivering freaky-fresh work from established writers.

  Karen Russell

  Voice, People, House

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• If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.

  Axl Rose

  Song, Art, Thinking

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• So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.

  Michael Jackson

  Leaving, Agents, Half

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• Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer.

  Cris Mazza

  Editors, Matter, Too Much

  "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  "Why Don't You Like Me? writers Tamara Faith Berger and Kate Zambreno in conversation". Interview With Tamara Faith Berger, logger.believermag.com. November 1, 2012.

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• A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.

  Bradley Joseph

  Musician, Demand, Helping

  "Continuing Journey: Bradley Joseph sustains music career with songwriting, recording". West Central Tribune, February 18, 2007.

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• Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Facts, Printing

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.47

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• Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.

  Clay Shirky

  Jobs, Mean, Going Away

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• I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to give a blurb for From Here to Eternity. It's there, in the Selected Letters for all to read, an example of a once great writer at his very worst. I doubt that he ever forgave Scribners for publishing James Jones in the first place. War, as Hemingway saw it, belonged to him.

  Larry McMurtry

  War, Giving, Doubt

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• I've been getting publishing royalties and stuff like that. I have just been lucky. They come in at the right time. Sometimes they don't, but I am not wealthy or anything like that. I just love to work. I would rather work three hundred and something days out of the year. I would rather be working. They don't know. I love playing. Then I can really get my music together.

  Pharoah Sanders

  Years, Together, Lucky

  "A Fireside Chat With Pharoah Sanders". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 21, 2003.

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• Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

  James Frey

  Writing, Marketing, Touring

  Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 20, 2009.

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• On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.

  Edmund Wilson

  Hands, Ideas, Advice

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• My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.

  Charles Stross

  New York, Track, Agents

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• Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.

  Hugo Black

  Mean, Justice, Constitution

  "Associated Press v. United States, 326 U.S. 1". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 18, 1945.

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• It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for the book publishing industry. You've heard some of the titles. 'Big Lies,' 'The Lies of George W. Bush,' 'The Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.' I'd like to tell you I've read each of these books, but that'd be a lie.

  George W. Bush

  Liars, Lying, Book

  "War no joke for Bush at correspondents' dinner". edition.cnn.com. May 2, 2004.

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• That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to profit from his songs. So what if he is a better singer than a songwriter; let's put him in a room with a real songwriter. Something great is bound to come...except very often nothing great comes out of such contrived match-ups. Nobody knows where a great song comes from, and that's why so many writers credit the Lord as a co-writer (though I notice they never offer Him half the writer's royalties) when they come up with a real gem.

  Michael Kosser

  Song, Real, Writing

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• It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.

  Denis Dutton

  Mistake, Talking, Play

  "Denis Dutton dies; author, philosopher, brother to L.A. booksellers" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 28, 2010.

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• I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

  Jack Kirby

  Art, Men, Literature

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Reality, Space

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20,2010.

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• I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Thinking, Light

  "Steve Martin: The Powells.com Interview". Interview with Jill Owens, www.powells.com. November 29, 2010.

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• If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done.

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Thinking, Careers

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• In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

  Emma Donoghue

  Editors, World, Males

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• It's pretty interesting how it all started out. After The Voice, I got introduced to some of my publishing people. We were out in Los Angeles and they said to give them a call when the show was all said and done and they'd get me into the writing world.

  Curtis Grimes

  Writing, Voice, People

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• Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

  Katherine Dunn

  Enough, Interpersonal, Courses

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• Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Country, Art

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