Quotes About Publishing

I have written much more than I have had published.

All I've wanted to do is write. In school I just wanted to be a writer but I was afraid to be a writer because I felt I couldn't. It didn't really feel like my writing was interesting enough, so getting a book published was a huge kick.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

I couldn't get published for three years. Then the times changed: glasnost, perestroika. So, for three years, I wasn't allowed to publish 'The Unwomanly Face of War,' but then it changed.

Having my novels published is a dream come true.

The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.

Getting your work published is a major struggle.

Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and the publisher of the song - not the singer - and make two separate deals.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

I'm fortunate that I have a female publisher, and her boss is a man of color. My world is a little more diverse, but the majority of the business is not diverse at all.

It's a fascinating world to drop a finished product on the marketplace without the intercession of a publisher.

My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!

Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.

Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.

Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support of a large publisher.

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

It's very hard to get one publisher to accept an author going over to the other author's company to collaborate.