Quotes About Publication

John Lennon was on the first cover.

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE hanged himself at age forty-six. I had sent one of our best new feature writers, David Lipsky, out to profile Wallace when Infinite Jest was first published in 1996.

For my father John Standish Fforde 1920-2000 Who never knew I was to be published but would have been most proud nonetheless--and not a little surprised.

You're only as successful as the last book you published, and you're only as good as the next book you're writing. So shut up and write.

I skim through the issue [of Elle] and reach the offending photo, a montage that ridicules rather than glorifies our idol. It is one of the mysteries of our trade. You work for weeks on a subject, it goes back and forth among the most skillful pairs of hands, and no one spots the glaring blunder that a neophyte would spot in a second.

My goal was always getting my work out in the world, and in many ways, I feel like the luckiest person alive.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

I check fashion magazines when I'm published in them to make sure that my work looks good, and then I kind of put it aside.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions.

Analog, or Asimov's Magazine, or The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Cornell University Press announced plans for a festschrift.

There's no real samizdat in the U.S. per se, First Amendment-wise, I don't think. I suppose ultra-radical Quebecois and Albertan stuff could be considered O.N.A.N.ite samizdat.

headers from the last few great daily papers

I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.

We succumb to this time-sucking rule when we're writing for a new editor or publication, and we want to impress them with our reporting skills. We'll search a database for one more study, one more factoid that will make our article sound more authoritative. Or maybe one or two more expert quotes will provide more balance. We fall into this trap when we're tackling a subject we've never covered before or a lengthy assignment where we have more leeway on content.