Quotes About Author

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

In the broader sense at Digitas, I've been very involved in media and publishing.

Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.

In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.

Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world.

When I started publishing - my first novel came out in 1990 - there were no options for publishing science fiction in Canada. There were no small presses, and the large presses simply would not touch it at all.

When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with.

I think publishing is a cost of research in the same way as buying a centrifuge is a cost of research.

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.

I got offered publishing deals to write country music, but it was not what I wanted to do.