Quotes About Publishing

Truths about writing can be framed before you've published a word; truths about life can be framed only when it's too late to make any difference.

I haven't published a novel in six years; instead, I fill my departmental hours casting words of praise into the bureaucratic abyss. On multiple occasions, serving on awards committees, I was actually required to write LORs to myself.

Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.

I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.