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Publishing Quotes

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Publication - is the auction of the mind.
Emily Dickinson

Authors on Publishing Quotes: Paul McCartney Donald E. Westlake Henry R. Luce Salman Rushdie Ed Brubaker James Dyson Clay Shirky Mona Van Duyn Kiran Desai Natalie Merchant Daniel Berrigan Jan Karon Vince Flynn Ed Weeks George Stigler Andrew Latimer Max Cannon Mary Karr Katherine Dunn Adrian Tomine Jim Harrison Teyana Barry Diller Gerald Petievich Tahir Shah Liza Campbell Matthew Specktor Jackie Kennedy Dick Bruna Jodi Picoult Thomas Browne Barry Eisler Frederick Busch
2.
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Henry R. Luce

3.
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
Salman Rushdie

4.
I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
Daniel Berrigan

5.
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
Barry Diller

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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

7.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
Mary Karr

8.
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
Jackie Kennedy

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I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
Jodi Picoult

10.
If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.
Donald E. Westlake

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All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
Donald E. Westlake

12.
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
James Dyson

13.
The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
Kiran Desai

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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

15.
Editing is the most companionable form of education.
Ed Weeks

16.
Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
Clay Shirky

17.
I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.
Mona Van Duyn

18.
I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
Adrian Tomine

19.
I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.
Natalie Merchant

20.
There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
Vince Flynn

21.
Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.
Jan Karon

22.
One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.
Andrew Latimer

23.
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
George Stigler

24.
I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.
Max Cannon

25.
But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
Dick Bruna

26.
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Jim Harrison

27.
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
Barry Eisler

28.
I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.
Teyana

29.
Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck.
Liza Campbell

30.
The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
Paul McCartney

31.
The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.
Tahir Shah

32.
I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.
Matthew Specktor

33.
I love the good old book with glue and binding, I really do, but that is just one way of experiencing text, and suddenly we have so many new ways, including our laptops, our phones, our watches. People in my generation agonize over this. People much younger than me don't agonize at all. They just go ahead and find ways to transform publishing.
Dinty W. Moore

34.
Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
Thomas Browne

35.
The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.
Paul McCartney

36.
The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era.
Vantile Whitfield

37.
Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.
Frederick Busch

38.
The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.
Lynn Abbey

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I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
Marguerite Young

40.
Being in the entertainment industry in L.A. is the equivalent to being in the publishing industry in New York. You don't ever have to hangout with anybody else.
Meghan Daum

41.
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
Evgeny Morozov

42.
I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
Mac Davis

43.
It was something that hopefully sparked a few people to do similar things down the road and will keep a certain flavor of magazine publishing alive. I have to say at the end of the day I am glad not to be spending all day, every day in the High Times office, you know, covering this particular angle of life.
John Buffalo Mailer

44.
With comics, you can only really learn what you're doing wrong or what works best when you see your work published. I've been publishing comics since my 20s, and still, when I flip through any of my new comics, I still only see the things that I wish I'd done better. But that's how you learn, by seeing it.
Ed Brubaker

45.
When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
Tanith Lee

46.
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
Lev Grossman

47.
It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.
George Bernard Shaw

48.
I was keen to challenge this vernacular as the role of the photojournalist was changing, and images were becoming urgent and more succinctly linguistic. This is why I moved to publishing artists who were challenging the veracity of both the medium and the profession through their works.
Michael Salu

49.
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
J. D. Salinger

50.
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