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Quotes About Publication

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.
~ Jami Attenberg
For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.
~ Richard Asher
It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so.
~ Christopher Hitchens
But such was not the case. In considered statements, the Vatican, the archbishop of Canterbury, and the chief sephardic rabbi of Israel all took a stand in sympathy with—the ayatollah. So did the cardinal archbishop of New York and many other lesser religious figures. While they usually managed a few words in which to deplore the resort to violence, all these men stated that the main problem raised by the publication of The Satanic Verses was not murder by mercenaries, but blasphemy.
~ Christopher Hitchens
It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.
~ Christopher Isherwood
A daily newspaper is destined to become like a weekly magazine. We'll be talking about what might happen tomorrow, with feature articles, investigative supplements, unexpected predictions...
~ Umberto Eco
Ce ne sont pas les informations qui font le journal, mais le journal qui fait l'information. Et savoir rassembler quatre nouvelles différentes signifie en proposer au lecteur une cinquième.
~ Umberto Eco
Ne naujienos kuria laikrašt?, o laikraštis kuria naujienas.
~ Umberto Eco
i saggi critici vengono letti e giudicati da altri critici e raramente dall'artista analizzato, che o non è abbonato alla rivista o è già morto da due secoli.
~ Umberto Eco
Somebody was needed to point out to them that even though they had had to quit, they had not failed entirely. If they had published sound ideas and had found readers, their ideas would live in other minds and spawn and reproduce themselves after the manner of ideas.
~ Upton Sinclair
Cable by Victor Hugo (then in exile) to his publisher, upon publication of Les Misérables : ? The publisher's response: !
~ Victor Hugo
After you have done your work—challenging as it may have been to complete—and released it in the marketplace, be not concerned with sales, reviews, critical acclaim, or anything else of the like... After you've written and published a book, you're now an AUTHOR. And that great honor can NEVER be taken away from you, no matter what.
~ Cat Ellington
As an architectural marvel, Bethlem appeared in at least thirty-six tourist guides in 1681.
~ Catharine Arnold
The satirical magazine Punch, at that period closer in spirit to today's Private Eye, editorialized that: 'A London churchyard is very like a London omnibus. It can be made to carry any number.
~ Catharine Arnold
But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.
~ Gil Kane
The principle which protects personal writings and all other personal productions, not against theft and physical appropriation, but against publication in any form, is in reality not the principle of private property, but that of an inviolate personality.
~ Glenn Greenwald
...all histories, which are a kind of distilled newspapers...
~ Thomas Carlyle, 1841
A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book means thereafter, perforce, — both grammatically and actually, — whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.
~ James Branch Cabell
L.A. Weekly piece was coming out in mid-February. Day One
~ James Ellroy
Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.
~ Donald Hall
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
~ Salvador Dali
We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
~ Olivia Newton-John
I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.
~ Virgil Suarez
Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.
~ Benjamin Cohen