Quotes About Publishing

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?

I work for a publishing company. We deal with both lunatics and nonlunatics. After a while an editor can pick out the lunatics right away. If somebody brings up the Templars, he's almost always a lunatic.

All the world's follies," he replied, "turn up in publishing houses sooner or later. But the world's follies may also contain flashes of the wisdom of the Most High, so the wise man observes folly with humility." Then

Se publican muchos libros escritos por estúpidos, porque a primera vista son muy convincentes. El redactor editorial no está obligado a reconocer al estúpido.

On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of the obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth-century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German monk toward the end of the fourteenth century.

Kitaplardaki tekboynuzlu t?pk? bir bask? gibidir. E?er bask? varsa, bask?s? yap?lan bir ?eyin var olmu? olmas? gerekir.

Karasik, Natasja – verlegen

Write. Publish. Repeat.

Everyone ignores two important facts: one person's crap is another person's beloved book, and publishing has always produced books in great volume.

Nearly everything I do is independent. It's my nature, what being fiercely independent. And publishing my written works of literature under my own imprint—Quill Pen Ink Publishing—is no different.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.

My friend Jeffrey Deaver, successful author of The Bone Collector and many other thrillers, confessed once that his first short story, written as a child, was a Bond-inspired spy adventure (he refused to let me read it . . . afraid, maybe, that I might try to publish it as The Bond Collector).

But it was still the 1960s, and even my most open-minded editor explained that if he published an article saying women were equal, he would have to publish one next to it saying women were not—in order to be objective.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

Un autor î?i stric? opera dac? o public? într-o edi?ie rev?zut?, chiar dac? din punct de vedere poetic a devenit acum mai bun?. Prima impresie e cea hot?râtoare, ?i omul e astfel alc?tuit, încât îl poti convinge de cele mai nemaipomenite lucruri; totul se lipe?te imediat de suflet, dar vai de acela care vrea sa cure?e ?i s? ?tearg? cea a fost lipit.

A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version believes you were writing about theirs.

The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

Hugo Gernsback invented pulp magazines and the grandfather paradox. Not bad for a charlatan.

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.

Publishing can be a cliquish and incestuous business; it is not uncommon for writers from the same agencies and publishers to review each other.

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.