Publishing Quotes
The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.
Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.
If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.
If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.
Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.
The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.
You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.
It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.
I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.
To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.
Turning a manuscript into a book is easy getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.
Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications
Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.
You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.
You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.
You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a book, you can open it again and again.
Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.
Publishing is definitely something you do because you enjoy educating or entertaining people.
The steady soul and the ego pretender / walk with their arms round each other's shoulders / through the mirage.
Elevation Book Publishing drives each book to their highest peak and afford authors the opportunity to rise to their full potential. We create thriving partnerships.
Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.
He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....
If I send all the books that I faithfully wrote overseas, would that, for any chance, be considered work-shipping??
Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.
Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.
Wait, " Honey said to herself, as she realized something amazing. "I’m already an excellent flyer. Maybe I can fight crime too.
I knew when I got into self-publishing I would have to compete with other authors' words. I did not, however, know that I was going to have to compete with so many sculpted abs!
Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.
Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.
By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.
I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!
Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.
Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.
Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there’s no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he’s lying, and you’re being taken.
Getting caught up in someone else's dream is like a drug. Sometimes you have to go cold turkey.
One alphabet at a time, you can write an encyclopaedia. One word at a time, you can publish an entire library.
A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page.
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