Quotes About Publishing

Not many poets have editors.

I have hidden my race for 22 books. I have hidden behind my married name, which is very Caucasian, because I didn't feel safe coming out with it. I didn't feel that the market would really accept me. I think I felt it's time to start bringing in an Asian-American point of view.

A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.

I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There will be too many of all of them. The strongest ones, the ones who offer the best customer experience, will survive.

I am a co-writer of 'Survivor,' so there's publishing that I'll receive for some of the records.

I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.

There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.

When I started writing, the deal was that publishers gave you a grand or two as an advance to buy some sweets, with the promise that they would make a big putsch with your fourth book when you'd built up a bit of a following. But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing.

This is publishing, Kip! Since when does logic have anything to do with it?

Nothing corrupts a man so deeply as writing a book; the myriad temptations are overpowering. I wouldn't presume—

cyan, magenta, yellow and black

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks!" ~ Richard Curtis ~

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks!

This is still less stressful than working in publishing.

The only way to assert the right to publish is to publish.

Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

I have finally reverted the publishing rights for my Cocoon Trilogy back to me and, for the first time, e-published the final book - Butterfly: Tomorrow's Children. Cocoon, the movie and the book, was only the beginning.

The Internet's abundant capacity has removed the old artificial constraints on publishing—including getting our content checked and verified. The new strategy of publishing everything we find out thus results in an immense cloud of data, free of theory, published before verified, and available to anyone with an Internet connection. And this is changing the role that facts have played as the foundation of knowledge.

Science had been a type of publishing and now it is becoming a network.