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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. -- Don Marquis
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession. -- Henry R. Luce
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. -- Nicholas Sparks
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. -- Paulo Coelho
Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button. -- Clay Shirky
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology. -- Barry Eisler
Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man. -- Felix Dennis
Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies. -- Joe Mansueto
Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well. -- Tucker Max
Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic. -- Jan Karon
I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing. -- Teyana
And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing. -- Christy Carlson Romano
Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck. -- Liza Campbell
I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.' -- Teyana Taylor
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process. -- Peter Shaffer
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art. -- Michael Korda
Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like Ebony and Jet magazines. -- Desiree Rogers
Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines. -- Desiree Rogers
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. -- Margaret Atwood
Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another. -- Lisa Unger
Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers "? and at some point the distinction should become meaningless, -- Nick Denton
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! -- Frank Iero
The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination. -- Peter Chernin
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing. -- Jennifer Gilmore
Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them. -- Michelle M. Pillow
Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers. -- Vantile Whitfield
Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place. -- Charles Stross
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. -- Thomas Wolfe
Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future.(Foreword by Frederick Ungar in Elective Affinities, 1962, Ungar Publishing) -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot. -- Hugh Hefner
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. -- Erica Jong
Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars. -- Tim Bray
I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time. -- J. A. Konrath
Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories. -- Alice McDermott
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
When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision for the Independent Web is the mission of Federated Media Publishing. -- John Battelle
Seeing Pretty Little Liars fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering, and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity. -- Sara Shepard
Seeing 'Pretty Little Liars' fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering, and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity. -- Sara Shepard
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
One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private. -- Graham Swift
The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates. -- Jason Epstein
Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth because I haven't given birth. It's more like when your children leave home. -- Alejandro Zambra
I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com. -- Piers Anthony
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. -- Sylvia Plath
I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town. -- Rita Mae Brown
You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher. -- Jeffery Deaver
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame. -- Juvenal
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. -- Robert Benchley
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' -- Doris Lessing
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. -- Seth Godin
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. -- Salman Rushdie
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. -- Alan Paton
Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever. -- Nicholas Sparks
That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write. -- Natalie Goldberg
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. -- Alfred Kazin
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves. -- John Peter Zenger
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. -- Lee Child
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money. -- Dorothy Parker
I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history. -- Rick James
You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free. -- David Meerman Scott
So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast. -- Clay Shirky
People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing. -- Neil Gaiman
The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver. -- Kiran Desai
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with. -- Orhan Pamuk
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money. -- Aleksandar Hemon
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
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. -- William Harvey
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine. -- Walter Martin
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. -- Charles Caleb Colton
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing. -- Maria Mitchell
I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting for entirely new forms of publishing to develop. -- Virginia Postrel
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. -- Lawrence Lessig
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript. -- Kiran Desai
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does. -- Joseph Kanon
The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted. -- Naomi Wolf
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways. -- Ashwin Sanghi
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination. -- Julian Assange
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines. -- Cassandra Clare
'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love. -- Rick Riordan
There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal. -- Kate Braverman
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base. -- John Avlon
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. -- Ray Bradbury
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
It's a crapshoot, publishing. -- Robert Gottlieb
Yelling is a form of publishing -- Margaret Atwood
The wheels of publishing never slow down. -- Laurie Graham
I should have my own publishing companies. -- Solomon Burke
I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood. -- Mac Davis
The music publishing I own is fabulous recording. -- Paul McCartney
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938. -- George Stigler
The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry. -- J. A. Konrath
The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era. -- Vantile Whitfield
Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors. -- Dan Brown
I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company. -- John Van Hamersveld
Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well. -- Thomas Friedman
I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. -- Alice Walker
I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it. -- Mona Van Duyn
I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped. -- Daniel Berrigan
Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers. -- Stephen Kinzer
Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever. -- Mary Kay Andrews
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. -- Jim Harrison
I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while. -- Max Cannon
I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career. -- Marguerite Young
People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories. -- Aleksandar Hemon
When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything! -- Tanith Lee
Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either. -- Frederick Busch
...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead! -- Massimo Vignelli
Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future. -- Jim Lee
For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death. -- Christina Baker Kline
When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. -- Margaret Atwood
I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents. -- Adrian Tomine
Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing. -- Adriana Trigiani
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support. -- Jasmine Cresswell
I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky. -- Natalie Goldberg
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. -- Donald E. Westlake
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing. -- Daniel Clowes

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