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Quotes About Publication

We have several projects in the pipeline, but one of the rules we set for ourselves is we don't want to solicit or announce any projects that aren't ready for publication. I'm personally really tired of reading about titles that never come out.
~ Marc Guggenheim
I am glad that 'Hoax' came out a couple weeks before Bob Woodward's book. We both have these one word titles. His is 'Rage,' mine is 'Hoax.' They do make for a great pairing, and I'm not saying that as a sales pitch!
~ Brian Stelter
Sooner or later, all magazines end up in the toilet.
~ Maurizio Cattelan
It had three or four book-cases, all of them very full, and a rack of wands, with newspapers and magazines hung out upon them like dripping laundry.
~ Sarah Waters
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
~ Abhishek Bachchan
The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.
~ Chanel Iman
I wrote 'The Art of the Deal' and numerous other books. Some were number one best-sellers. I guess 'The Art of the Deal' is the best-selling business book of all time.
~ Donald Trump
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
~ Sara Paretsky
It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.
~ Louis Silverstein
I have to do this all the time - choosing what to print based on how it might come back to harm people from whom I've earned trust.
~ Melissa Gira Grant
I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.
~ Mark Twain
Which is him? The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
~ Mark Twain
A recent history of the British Aircraft Corporation's 'Mustard' concept of the 1960s is Dan Sharp's British Secret Projects 5: Britain's Space Shuttle (Crecy Publishing, 2016).
~ Stephen Baxter
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
~ Eric Hobsbawm
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. The vast majority of printed works enter a state of suspended animation within a few weeks or years of publication, from which they are occasionally awakened, for equally short periods, by research students.
~ Eric Hobsbawm
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.
~ Ben Goldacre
April 1929 saw the publication of Daughter of Earth by the radical American writer Agnes Smedley.
~ Ben Macintyre
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The account of how Franklin's Autobiography came to be written and of the adventures of the original manuscript forms in itself an interesting story. The Autobiography is Franklin's longest work, and yet it is only a fragment. The first part, written as a letter to his son, William Franklin, was not intended for publication; and the composition is more informal and the narrative more personal than in the second part, from 1730 on, which was written with a view to publication.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written - assume that the information in the book is at least a year older than the copyright date, and possibly two.
~ Jamais Cascio
I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.
~ Steven Pinker
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
~ Peter Shaffer
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
~ Antonia Fraser
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
~ David Sedaris