Quotes About Publishing

My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as many authors do.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at any time, that I won't be publishable anymore.

We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.

Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a book?

I will not apologize ever, for any reason, for publishing the views of people who don't make a living in politics about why they plan to vote a certain way.

Estimates are that in 2012, more than 32 million books were available - the explosion, thanks to the ease of self-publishing; 2013 could see even more titles grace our virtual bookstores! That means we are going to be awash in covers and titles, plot descriptions and characters.

One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand for something.

What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.

Don't sell to publishing - that's real hardcore pragmatic advice Do whatever you want Doesn't matter What if you need cash - go rob something

Years ago, before the internet and electronic ways to investigate intellectual property thefts, publishers would put traps into books. Fictitious entries in reference books, to catch copyright thieves. Lillian Virginia Mountweazel is the most famous.

I am only astonished that, while so many women have intelligent things to say and so many men are still unknown, a publisher cared to print such a little book, and at such a price. That confirms what Schopenhauer reveals to us, among other truths: philosophy is a matter of death. A philosopher living and thinking life is a priori suspect in our philosophical culture.

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Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

Few industries have had their death foretold more frequently than the book publishing industry, and yet somehow, miraculously, it seems to have survived them all – at least till now.

For publishers are not just employers and financial risk-takers: they are also cultural mediators and arbitrators of quality and taste.

Would there be no end to publishing? he wondered. Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years and allowed readers to catch up.