quotes about Publishing
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
-- Barry Diller -
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
-- Barry Eisler -
Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
-- Clay Shirky -
I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.
-- Clement Freud -
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
-- Daniel Berrigan -
But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
-- Dick Bruna -
If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.
-- Donald E. Westlake -
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
-- Donald E. Westlake -
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Editing is the most companionable form of education.
-- Ed Weeks -
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
-- George Stigler -
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 -
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I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
-- Hannes AlfvenSource : "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 197, 1998.
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Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
-- Henry R. Luce -
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 -
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
-- James Dyson -
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Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.
-- Jan Karon -
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 -
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
-- Jim Harrison -
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 -
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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 -
The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
-- Kiran Desai -
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 -
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 worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
-- Mac Davis -
I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
-- Marguerite Young -
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
-- Mary Karr -
I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.
-- Max Cannon -
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I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.
-- Mona Van DuynSource : Mona Van Duyn (2008). “Selected Poems”, p.103, Knopf
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
-- Salman Rushdie -
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 -
When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
-- Tanith Lee -
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I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.
-- Teyana -
There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
-- Vince Flynn -
One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.
-- Andrew Latimer -
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 BrubakerSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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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 MailerSource : Source: bigthink.com
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Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck.
-- Liza Campbell -
I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.
-- Matthew Specktor -
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 -
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The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era.
-- Vantile Whitfield -
I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
-- Adrian Tomine -
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. MooreSource : Source: therumpus.net
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Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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