Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I think publishing is a cost of research in the same way as buying a centrifuge is a cost of research.
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.
I want to have a publishing company and a record label, and I want to manage five artists... eventually.
The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books.
I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.
Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Johnson Publishing Co. has always had a first-class image. And until the day I die, I want to keep that image.
Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.
Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.
For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.
With some of the samples that I chose to use, tracking down the person that owns the publishing has become a task.
All writing and publishing is very difficult, regardless of genre. There are going to be obstacles no matter what.
Most of the important secrets that I've known about, the real secrets that are known about aren't worth publishing.
I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
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.
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.
I don't think anyone's career is so big that they can't know where their major synchs are or where their publishing is going.
Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.