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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy. -- Marshall McLuhan
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy." -- Marshall McLuhan
Publication - is the auction of the mind... -- Emily Dickinson
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Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. -- Anne Lamott
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. -- Madame de Stael
Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. -- Vannevar Bush
We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy. -- Bill Gates
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life. -- Daniel Alarcon
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. -- Salvador Dali
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. -- Raymond Chandler
[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident. -- Dan Beachy-Quick
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn. -- Tim Cahill
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There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book. -- Julius Streicher
My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus. -- Robert Cormier
Academic success depends on research and publications. -- Philip Zimbardo
It's very rare that publications double their frequency. -- James Daly
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. -- Fran Lebowitz
The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science. -- Rudolf Hilferding
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it -- David Hilbert
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking. -- Douglass North
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. -- Theodore Sturgeon
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper. -- Michael Shermer
But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects. -- Kenichi Fukui
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects. -- Joseph Lancaster
This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home. -- Paul Kane
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe. -- Francois Gautier
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. -- Anne Tyler
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. -- Augusten Burroughs
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun. -- J. K. Rowling
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does. -- Seamus Heaney
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent. -- Douglas Hofstadter
I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment. -- Steven Pinker
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying. -- Marilynne Robinson
One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses. -- Noam Chomsky
We have several projects in the pipeline, but one of the rules we set for ourselves is we don't want to solicit or announce any projects that aren't ready for publication. I'm personally really tired of reading about titles that never come out. -- Marc Guggenheim
The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base. -- Timothy Ferriss
Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy. -- Mike Quigley
What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail. -- Ashton Kutcher
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945. -- Hilary Mantel
As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers. -- Don Yaeger
From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look witheringly at them and snarl, 'What do you think?' I mean, how do you imagine anyone writes a quarter of a million words a year for publication? -- Will Self
You have to go into rehab after doing a David Walliams book. David is such an important man; publishers rate him very, very highly, His books usually go straight to the bestseller number one spot on the day of publication. He is a hugely important writer as far as HarperCollins, his publishers, are concerned. -- Tony Ross
The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary. -- Mary MacLane
In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York Times' - coupled with the favourable Supreme Court rulings on publication of the Pentagon Papers - were landmarks for the interpretation of First Amendment rights and the freedom of the press. -- Lionel Barber
Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar. -- William Julius Wilson
If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it. -- Tibor Kalman
RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox -- Cameron Crowe
An action is the perfection and publication of thought. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by. -- Matthew Rhys
It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey -- Karl Pilkington
Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality. -- Niklaus Wirth
There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. -- Margaret Atwood
The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author. -- George Sand
I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears. -- Nicholas Royle
The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet. -- Jay Asher
The L.A. Times, it's an anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times. -- Mel Gibson
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. -- George Bernard Shaw
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read. -- Jay Asher
If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all. -- George Bernard Shaw
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life. -- Hortense Calisher
Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread. -- Benjamin Cohen
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication. -- George Bernard Shaw
I could probably say a lot of things, but I'm not sure they'd be fit for publication. -- Jade Puget
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. -- Oscar Wilde
I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication. -- Justine Larbalestier
Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates. -- Chuck Klosterman
'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard. -- Bobby Ghosh
Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.) -- Alfred Stieglitz
You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself. -- Ansel Elgort
Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication. -- Robert Munsch
I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done. -- Hilary Liftin
I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department. -- John Pople
In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund -- David Alan Harvey
The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing. -- Frederic G. Kenyon
Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally. -- Courtney Love
If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication. -- Cynthia Ozick
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs. -- George Eliot
There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it. -- Terry Gross
An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing. -- Albert Camus
What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it. -- Janet Burroway
We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another. -- Estelle Morris
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
Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography. -- Mario Testino
First Round has an opportunity: to create an entirely new kind of online publication, built for technology entrepreneurs, where they can learn how to build better companies. -- Josh Kopelman
I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism. -- Anne Lamott
Im saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word. -- J. I. Packer
TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they're so bad and uninformed. It's insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC's, we all laugh at TechCrunch. -- Jason Calacanis
I dreamed of becoming a writer. And . . . this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book . . . -- Gloria Estefan
I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word. -- J. I. Packer
An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile. -- George Bernard Shaw
No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it. -- Timothy White
My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published. -- Elena Ferrante
The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990. -- Douglass North
Intermediary liability' means that the intermediary, a service that acts as 'intermediate' conduit for the transmission or publication of information, is held liable or legally responsible for everything its users do. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of the necessary qualities, such as self-interest, news, or curiosity. -- John Caples
Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979. -- Karen Joy Fowler
News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice. -- Virgil Suarez
In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication. -- Lord Byron
Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages. -- Jojo Moyes
Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The key to understanding my career is that I was never into technology. From the beginning, I brought an outsider's point of view, which is why I write for a layman's publication. -- David Pogue
The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it. -- Michel Faber
Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book. -- Kate Christensen
The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more than they could possibly handle at normal reading rates. -- Tony Buzan
Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later ... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies. -- Salvador Dali
An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12. -- Miranda July
It is important to have a reliable and substantive publication such as World Screen available as a source for information. The magazine's reporting is always on the cutting edge of the global television business. -- Jeffrey Bewkes
If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the person's motives, about their place in the hierarchy. It's not scientifically relevant. -- Susan Fiske
If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just traditional journal publication. Networked science must be open science. -- Michael Nielsen
A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67. -- Norman Ralph Augustine

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