Quotes About Publishing

A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

My dad's version of the book, the staid, declarative Guide to the Galaxy, is nearly identical, except that the graphics are a matte black, and the same information is listed as Fact #47. I guess that's what growing up means, at least according to to the publishing industry: phosphorescence fades to black and white, and facts cease to be fun.

But when The Prince of Tides came out, thank God she was dead. I'm not sure I would have had the guts to publish that with her still alive.

But jackets are the redheaded stepchildren of book publishing.

Imagine getting to be one of those people who actually gets paid to talk about literature. He'd do this for free, not that he wants his publisher to know that.

But jackets are the redheaded stepchildren of book publishing. We blame them for everything.

he had referred to blurbs as "the blood diamonds of publishing.

Las cubiertas son las cenicientas de las editoriales. Les echamos la culpa de todo.

Publishing an object also publishes any objects referred to by its nonprivate fields. More generally, any object that is reachable from a published object by following some chain of nonprivate field references and method calls has also been published. From

One of the sad little secrets of the writing life is that it's become like the movie business, where a movie has to "open big"; if a book hasn't caught anybody's interest in the first two weeks of its life, it's not going to.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Los relatos no se venden. Los editores suelen hacer estas colecciones como un favor a sus autores consagrados.

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put my interest in the narrative writing of biographies.

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned savings - say, some two-three lakhs - and getting your book printed. It's not published; it's printed!

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

A lot of influencers who have made the pivot to publishing, they tend to be ghostwritten, they tend to be younger. It's a little bit of an uphill battle by nature of coming from YouTube.

I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that.

If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during the long and torturous edit process when it seemed that 'Zulu Hart,' the first of the trilogy, would never be fit for public consumption.

Even if you are lucky enough to sell a trilogy, you don't know if you'll ever get to write that whole trilogy. I have many friends who had very long arcs planned in multi-book series that they never got to write because the first book didn't perform.