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Quotes About Publication

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the time, Heller was also working on his first novel, Catch-18. New World Writing published the first chapter in 1955; three years later Heller had a contract to publish the novel with Simon & Schuster. To avoid confusion with Leon Uris's 1961 novel Mila 18, Catch-18 was changed to Catch-22 before its publication in the same year.
~ Joseph Heller
Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man's destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.
~ Walker Percy
You hear what the dean said about Jesus Christ? 'Sure He's a good teacher, but what's He published?
~ Wallace Stegner
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
~ Walter Cronkite
Deixava os meus manuscritos permanecerem na gaveta do meu escritório durante anos, antes de me sentir suficientemente seguro para publicá-los. Ser esperto era algo que eu podia deixar para os outros.
~ Wilhelm Reich
His book was a bestseller, and by the end of the year, he had signed a lucrative deal to write three more.
~ David Axelrod
in Israel it is said that God himself would not get promotion in any science department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Why not? Because he has only one publication—?and it was not written in English.
~ David Bellos
Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.
~ Douglas Adams
The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub-meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around
~ Douglas Adams
In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.
~ Alan Dershowitz
I've managed to persuade Yoko Ono to put some of her work in my Penguin book!
~ Timothy Morton
I freelanced for the 'Boston Phoenix.'
~ Christie Hefner
A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.
~ Norman Parkinson
I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.
~ Martin Parr
I think I need pictures with my articles.
~ Dominick Dunne
A book is almost always a collective effort, even if it has only a single author.
~ Raghuram G. Rajan
My mother saw the magazine, and she was like, 'You made it.' I've been on Showtime and Comedy Central, but none of that matters - all that matter is that she sees me in 'People!'
~ Sebastian Maniscalco
Fashion is a pay-to-play game; this is an industry. At a certain point, you must bridge a gap where you are supporting the reviewer, the publication, and that is very real.
~ Zac Posen
Seeing my book on a billboard in New York was a bucket-list-type thing, but also a deeply surreal moment. I had to keep reminding myself that, oh, yes, I wrote that book.
~ Ruth Ware
Only a noon or late sports edition would use a headline like that.
~ Raymond Chandler
Our world is eagerly awaiting the posthumous publication of his works, which are rumored to contain an a priori proof of God's existence—a situation which has prompted me to flirt with the idea of a symbolism-heavy play entitled Waiting for Gödel.)
~ Rebecca Goldstein
The Madingley paper56 represented a kind of closure for me, a climax to the first part of my scientific career, beginning in my early twenties and ending in my early thirties. At this point, I took off in an entirely new direction, never to return to those youthful mathematical pastures. That new direction, which was to define the rest of my career, and approximately the second half of my life, opened up with the publication of my first book, The Selfish Gene.
~ Richard Dawkins
Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.
~ Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks