Quotes About Publication

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

Thus, from the very outset, and in typically effusive fashion, did Marion Crawford set out the thesis that characterizes her celebrated, indeed notorious, book, The Little Princesses. By contrasting the sterling qualities of the future Queen with her younger sister's more capricious personality, Crawfie gave authority to what – by the time of the book's publication in 1950 – many people already believed.

The vast majority of scientists devote a large part of their efforts to writing articles which are never read.

I showed my nana, who lives in Delray, my writeup in the 'New York Times,' and she said, 'When will you be in the 'Sun Sentinel?'

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.

The ultimate message of this book, though, is not that should strive for publication, but that you should become devoted to the craft of writing, for its own sake. Ask yourself what you would do if you knew you would never be published. Would you still write? If you are truly writing for the art of it, the answer will be yes. And then, every word is a victory.

It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at the center of the universe and that the world out there is on tenterhooks waiting for the next copy of whatever publication you work at.

Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

March-April 1935 issue of Crawford's Marvel Tales, and it probably was not seen by more than a few hundred people. But

I had intended to write this book anonymously, using my prison number only. But when the manuscript was completed, I saw that as an anonymous publication it would lose half its value

I had intended to write this book anonymously, using my prison number only. But when the manuscript was completed, I saw that as an anonymous publication it would lose half its value, and that I must have the courage to state my convictions openly. I therefore refrained from deleting any of the passages, in spite of an intense dislike of exhibitionism.

In the same way once a book is printed and published it ceases to be the property of the author; he commits it to the care of other people;

It is ten years since Virginia Woolf published her last volume of collected essays, THE COMMON READER: SECOND SERIES. At the time of her death she was already engaged in getting together essays for a further volume, which she proposed to publish in the autumn of 1941 or the spring Of 1942. She also intended to publish a new book of short stories, including in it some or all of MONDAY OR TUESDAY, which has been long out of print. She left

Had I come before myself, I would have given Humbert at least thirty-five years for rape, and dismissed the rest of the charges. But even so, Dolly Schiller will probably survive me by many years. The following decision I make with all the legal impact and support of a signed testament: I wish this memoir to be published only when Lolita is no longer alive

I have always had a number of parts lined up in case the muse failed. A lepidopterist exploring famous jungles came first, then there was the chess grand master, then the tennis ace with an unreturnable service, then the goalie saving a historic shot, and finally, finally, the author of a pile of unknown writings- Pale Fire, Lolita, Ada- which my heirs discover and publish.

I analyzed hundreds of consumer complaint letters sent to my brother, the consumer activist Ralph Nader throughout the 1960s and 1970s, in the hope that he would do something about their problems. Some of those letters were published in No Access to Law and formed the basis