Quotes About Publishing

Well,' says Mr Big Nose, 'I could use an enthusiastic filing monster like you in my office at Big Nose Books.' 'Oh, that would be wonderful,' says the monster. 'I always wanted to get into publishing. It starts with P, one of my favourite letters.' Terry giggles. 'P,' he says.

I shall neither trouble the reader, nor myself, with any apology for publishing of these sermons; for if they be, in any measure, truly serviceable to the end for which they are designed, I do not see what apology is necessary; and if they be not so, I am sure none can be sufficient.Tillotson.

Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country; nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

When I wanted to publish my first book and all doors were closed, it was a friend, Dr. Stanley Obresi, from University of Ghana who introduced me to a publishing house. The rest is history.

Xerography is bringing a reign of terror into the world of publishing, because it means that every reader can become both author and publisher,

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

He believed, not without some) ustification, that Doubleday had set out deliberately to subvert the book it had bought from him.

After writing and before publishing a book, the writer should read it as a reader since such insight mirrors the flaws.

Better to write just thoughts which have got wisdom a lot than a whole book that is not even worth referring for its quotes by a sensible reader and yet be regarded as a published author or celebrity.

Why did Freud write a book about which he had such doubts? We can only conjecture. Peter Gay wrote that "it is highly plausible that some of the impulses guiding Freud's arguments in Totem and Taboo emerged from his hidden life; in some respects the book represents a round in his never finished wrestling bout with Jacob Freud." Gay also mentions that Freud realized he was "publishing scientific fantasies.

I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.

The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

No matter what I've published - and you can look it up, I've published quite a lot in science, quite a few books too - none of it's very important. All will be forgotten and in a few years time will be a few comments in eight-point type in footnotes at the bottom of the page somewhere.

Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.

I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.

If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it.

Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.

I got offered to do a book yeah, and they said to me, 'Gem, you're so busy, how about we get someone to walk around with you with a dictaphone,' and that's how we did it.