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Quotes About Publication

You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.
~ Dave Eggers
'Cosmopolitan' used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn't tank their entire sales.
~ Dave Goldberg
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.
~ Elena Ferrante
Work, finish, publish.
~ Michael Faraday
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
~ Hannes Alfven
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
~ Daniel J. Bernstein
Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay.
~ Gene Wolfe
'Fast Food Nation' appeared as an article in 'Rolling Stone' before it was a book, so I was extending it from the article, and by that time, everyone could read the article.
~ Eric Schlosser
It sure is cool that I was mentioned in 'Rolling Stone.'
~ Marc Martel
A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age.
~ Chuck Klosterman
No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
~ Nancy Werlin
I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared.
~ Penny Jordan
I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'
~ Adrian McKinty
I believe monthly comics and the extended miniseries are the true hallmarks of comic art and storytelling.
~ Brian Stelfreeze
I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
~ Timothy White
I wrote an article for Revolver and it was very offensive.
~ Forrest Griffin
Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.
~ Oscar Wilde
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
~ Oscar Wilde
I think after Christmas would be better for publication: I am hardly a Christmas present.
~ Oscar Wilde
Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? CECILY: Oh no. [Puts her hand over it.] You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.
~ Oscar Wilde
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
He asked that the picture not be published simply because his mother did not like it.
~ Dale Carnegie
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.
~ Dan Simmons