Quotes About Publishing

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

I want to put out a few books throughout my lifetime.

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.

In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a straight page-turner, with no literary conceits.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.'

I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.

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Rick decided to publish it himself. To promote the book, he took a booth at a regional

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

You go through more bestsellers than a McCarthy bonfire.

O Jorge Luis Borges dizia que o escritor publica seus livros para livrar-se deles, para não ficar reescrevendo-os ao infinito. Mas Borges, que nunca fez um texto muito longo, foi um grande exemplo de quem sempre soube onde parar.

He finds the idea of someone wanting to be paid as well as published a particularly repulsive, almost obscene form of literary pretension.

Le botteghe degli stampatori mi hanno sempre attirato. I libri hanno un fascino particolare.

In 1931 Mabel bought a carton of Roberts Brothers archives, which had been thrown out as waste paper for the mills but salvaged by a book hunter. The carton contained the whole of the Dickinson publishing papers, including the draft and final contracts in 1894.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

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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.

To learn that a great book has gone out of print is to be reminded of our mortality, because something we have made an intimate part of our emotional selves has been declared, by the publishing world and the culture at large, to be obsolete.