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Quotes About Publication

I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.
~ David Talbot
'Royal Beatings' was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to 'The New Yorker' in the 1950s, and then I stopped sending for a long time and sent only to magazines in Canada. 'The New Yorker' sent me nice notes, though - penciled, informal messages. They never signed them. They weren't terribly encouraging.
~ Alice Munro
If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
~ Edmund White
Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.
~ David Sedaris
It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.
~ Bruce Eric Kaplan
I'm an unabashed fan of 'The New Yorker.' I do feel proud when I see my artwork in there.
~ Adrian Tomine
I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.
~ Adrian Tomine
Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'
~ George Saunders
'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.
~ Robert Mankoff
I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.
~ Binyavanga Wainaina
When I was working on the al-Zawahiri piece, a large part of it published in 'The New Yorker' in 2002, I had spoken to a lot of Zawahiri's friends, people who had been in prison with him, people that had been in al-Jihad with him. And quite to my surprise, they liked that article a lot.
~ Lawrence Wright
At the age of 10, I had my first piece published in what was known as the 'Junior Post,' which was part of the 'Yorkshire Post,' and it was just for kids. I read it every week. And I got paid for it. So I thought... 'I can actually do this. I can get paid to write, and this is going to be fine.' I wrote several pieces for them.
~ Joanna Coles
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.
~ Seamus Heaney
A full and painstaking account of the day's fighting, from which this summary is largely derived, is given by Alfred Price in the work which gave this day its name. First published in 1979, it remains one of the best books yet written about the Battle of Britain.
~ Stephen Bungay
None other than Paul Revere engraved a plate diagramming how to refine saltpeter, an essential component in the making of gunpowder. It was published in August 1774 in the Royal American Magazine, the unlikely title for a magazine published by Isaiah Thomas, a member of the Sons of Liberty.
~ Stephen P. Halbrook
This resulted, in 2012, in the publication of Global Water Security
~ Michael T. Klare
The monthly magazine Moskva, otherwise a rather cautious and quiet publication, carried the first part of The Master and Margarita in its November 1966 issue.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
One is the much-quoted 'Manuscripts don't burn', which seems to express an absolute trust in the triumph of poetry, imagination, the free word, over terror and oppression, and could thus become a watchword of the intelligentsia. The publication of The Master and Margarita was taken as a proof of the assertion.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
I learned not long ago that Pechorin had died upon returning from Persia. This news made me very glad: it gave me the right to publish these notes, and I took the opportunity to put my name on someone else's work.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.
~ Sloane Crosley
With the exception of immutable objects, it is not safe to use an object that has been initialized by another thread unless the publication happens-before the consuming thread uses it.
~ Brian Goetz
Journalists have so much newsprint to fill, the details are the last of their considerations.
~ Keith Allen
It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
~ Randy Schekman