Quotes About Publishing

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.

You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.

For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.

I love being a worship leader, but because I'm also a record company owner, a publishing company owner and a brand developer, I have an economic and a fiscal responsibility as well.

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I think that writing texts, publishing texts, selling texts in a physical book store is one of the important tools for breeding this new generation.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

Justice Thomas McKean felt this was an accurate and appropriate application of Blackstone's declaration that publishing "bad sentiments destructive of the needs of society is the crime which society corrects.

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

She could possibly hit the best-seller list if she sold it as a novel, though.

That they would publish for adults and which would find currency with children.

When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print

When they dreamed of turning iron and metal into gold, they called it alchemy. The much more far-fetched dream of turning bound sheafs of plain paper into fortunes, they call publishing

Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on...