Quotes About Publishing

Hamilton seldom published under his own name and drew on a bewildering array of pseudonyms. Such pen names were sometimes transparent masks through which the public readily identified prominent politicians. The fashion of allowing anonymous attacks permitted extraordinary bile to seep into political discourse, and savage remarks that might not otherwise have surfaced appeared regularly in the press.

Free people write books," it said. "Free people publish books. Free people sell books. Free people buy books. Free people read books. In the spirit of America's commitment to free expression we inform the public that this book will be available to readers at bookshops and libraries throughout the country.

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

But if he and Linda composed together, they stood to earn a higher share, since unlike Paul, Linda was not under contract to Northern Songs and could route her part in the collaboration through another publisher—specifically, McCartney Music, Inc., the publishing arm of the newly formed McCartney Productions Ltd.

Ahem, this is your cue to visit the Web sites for PS Publishing, Cemetery Dance Publications, and Subterranean Press

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more important to write than it is to study about writing.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

A person who publishes a book wilfully appears before the populace with his pants down. –

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.

Their proof-reader tried to kill herself. She shot herself with a gun.

Almost two hundred thousand books are published in the UK every year and although some of them will have the advantage of a well-known author attached, the vast majority have just two or three words on a surface measuring no more than six by nine inches to sell themselves. Titles have to be short, smart and meaningful, easy to read, easy to remember and original. That's asking a lot.

The Daily Mail had branded the books 'pure porn poison', which the publishers had cheekily reprinted on the cover.

I'm incredibly pleased to be working with Marco Palmieri and Tor Books on 'The Geek Feminist Revolution.' This was an exciting book to pitch and is proving to be a lot of fun to put together.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.

In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.

I learned from Linus Pauling it's not a disgrace in science to publish something that's wrong. What's bad is to publish something that's not very interesting.