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Quotes About Publication

As Sherlock Holmes noted in the Silver Blaze case—the curious thing was that the dog did not bark. More problematic, there are plenty of scientific results that are left out of publications because they are not statistically significant, but nevertheless provide information.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Academic work, because of its attention-seeking orientation, can be easily subjected to Lindy effects: think of the hundreds of thousands of papers that are just noise, in spite of how hyped they were at the time of publication.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
he tells me that he has seen me in issue No. 5 of Crablegs and Muletears and that I am getting better, and I tell him that I am a slow starter and being only 42
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm not the monthly comic guy, and I never really have been.
~ Brian Azzarello
Putting ideas into a book means I can help even more people by getting the book into everyone's hands.
~ Hilaria Baldwin
For obvious reasons, this particular flavor of survivorship bias is called "publication bias." Interesting findings are published; non-findings, or failures to replicate previous findings, face a higher publication hurdle.
~ Tim Harford
one were seeking a symbolic moment when this transformation was accomplished, a hinge on which post-war Europe's self-understanding turned, it came in Paris on December 28th 1973 with the first Western publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. Reviewing the English translation in the Guardian, W. L. Webb wrote 'To live now and not to know this work is to be a kind of historical fool, missing a crucial part of the consciousness of the age.
~ Tony Judt
From the days of Sumerian clay tablets until now, humans have "published" at least 310 million books, 1.4 billion articles and essays, 180 million songs, 3.5 trillion images, 330,000 movies, 1 billion hours of videos, TV shows, and short films, and 60 trillion public web pages.
~ Kevin Kelly
To read all these stories and more, you will have to wait till I am dead and a suicidal publisher decides to print them.
~ Khushwant Singh
The basic outline of the philosophy of the Buribunks: I think, therefore I am; I speak therefore I am; I write, therefore I am; I publish therefore I am.
~ Carl Schmitt
I read an article in a women's magazine about "writing purple prose for love and money." They made it sound easy, so I started writing on an old electronic typewriter that alternated between stuck keys and high throttle. I had no clue my first letter to Harlequin came back marked "Return to Sender." Luckily, I made my first sale before I understood how long the odds were.
~ Carrie Alexander
The Second World War broke out within a few months of the publication of Rehabilitations and The Personal Heresy. Jack was then a man of forty. He had published seven books, of which only two were moderately successful. No one could have guessed that within a few years his would become a household name.
~ George Sayer
The verses which he published in various reviews from time to time, and the neatly copied poems which he sent to his friends, superiors, and important personages, were neither much better nor much worse than thousands of other verse products of the day.
~ Ivo Andri?
By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.
~ Harrison Salisbury
What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.
~ Ashton Kutcher
I had almost nothing published until I had something published in 'Sports Illustrated.' I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.
~ Steve Rushin
From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.
~ Karen DeCrow
Stayed is also a book of the heart and I couldn't be more thrilled to see its publication. In my twenty-six years of publishing, it's my first major hardcover release and brings me full circle to work with Lou Aronica, whom I first had the pleasure of working with while at Avon Books. It's also my very first non-genre
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
The Girl Who Stayed is also a book of the heart and I couldn't be more thrilled to see its publication. In my twenty-six years of publishing, it's my first major hardcover release and brings me full circle to work with Lou Aronica, whom I first had the pleasure of working with while at Avon Books. It's also my very first non-genre novel, although you will find it a signature Tanya Anne Crosby read, filled with flawed characters,
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.
~ Isabel Allende
Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.
~ Elliott Erwitt
The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and to include as many different people and places and times as you want, working with pretty much only one person, the editor, whose job it is to get it in good shape for publication.
~ Nick Hornby
London was a spice mecca. The first recipe for curry in English was actually published in 1747.
~ Tom Parker Bowles
I always go for 'SPIN' magazine because I'm such a music buff.
~ Reid Scott