Publishing Quotes

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.

Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.

I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.

The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.

The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.

I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era.

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.

The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.

The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.

Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.