Quotes About Publishing

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the Financial Times.

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books.

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

House of Anansi Press was founded in 1967 with a mandate to publish Canadian-authored

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

I don't take advances for my books.

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

Unless you sell millions, I think it's very hard as a writer not to feel anxious about what you put out. I always feel I could do better.

I think Movable Type is a really good product for certain applications.

In 1839, for the first time Balzac mentioned in a letter to his publisher the expression La Comédie humaine and the title is recorded in the contract he signed in 1841.

Colin Patterson's Evolution, second edition (make sure you get the second edition, it is much better than the first) (Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publishing, 1999).

Any of the following crimes against fiction can prevent the publication of your novel. Committing several will prevent the publication of novels by anyone whose name is similar to yours, just in case.

We also sold books, creating several best sellers and helping to put unknown authors on the map.

I wasn't that good you know. What I was was a guy who could write a little, publishing in magazines surrounded by people who couldn't write at all. So I looked pretty good. But I never thought I was that good at all. All that I thought was that I tried to tell the truth.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

Smouldering Fire was first published in the U.K. in 1935 and in the U.S. in 1938. Later reprints were all heavily abridged. For our reprint, Furrowed Middlebrow and Dean Street Press have followed the text of the first U.K. edition,

Qué tonto era el público! Era exactamente un rebaño de ovejas —pensó, adormilado—. Van uno detrás de otro como tontos, no reparan en tal libro, pero compran el de al lado solo porque lo compran los demás, aunque no hay manera de saber qué ven en el uno o dejan de ver en el otro. Pero este libro… éste tiene que salir. Hay que publicarlo»

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

I think it is serious to have good sales. As I learned belatedly, the more you sell, the more publishers pay attention to you, and it took me a very long time to figure that out because I never thought that way.

For a very long time, I thought everyone I met through the process of getting an agent and a publishing deal had made a mistake. When they agreed to pay me for the book, I thought they would ask me for the money back.

Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.