Quotes About Publishing

Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private.

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright.

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I wasn't going to make a living at it.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.

In the broader sense at Digitas, I've been very involved in media and publishing.

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.

In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.

The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.