Publishing Quotes
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The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.
— Marianne Cushing
It's not about the size of your book, It's about the substance in it.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher.
— W. Terry Whalin
A new regulation for the publishing industry: The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.
— Calvin Trillin
The original version of 'The White Mountains' was probably just about worth publishing.
— John Christopher
Well, all I need is the air I breathe and a place to rest my head.
— Hal Leonard Publishing Company
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
— Peter Shaffer
Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.
— Sara Sheridan
I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
— Alan Dershowitz
Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.
— Adriana Trigiani
the Supreme Alpha Male it's my duty to protect them, so I created this island
— Curvy Love Publishing
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
— Barry Diller
Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.
— Evan Williams
The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.
— Dennis O'Neil
Can you tie your cherry stem into a knot, boys?
— Kali Willows
The trick isn't to simply publish a book; the trick is to produce a quality book package to surround the book's content
— Hank Quense
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
— Seth Godin
People can't read a book if they don't know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.
— Jo Linsdell
Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.
— Nicholas Sparks
Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.
— Victoria Strauss
Everything published goes down the same chute out of the overbright glare of publicity into oblivion.
— John Dos Passos
A strong and variegated publishing environment helps create deliberative, reflective societies. Publishing
— Michael Bhaskar
People eat nuts squirrels are nuts
— Gage Educational Publishing
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
— Dave Eggers
Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.
— Thomas Friedman
An author's strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher's commitment to it.
— Sterling Lord
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
— Elinor Florence
Birthday sex is my speciality.
— Amy Andrews
Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.
— Red Red Rover
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.
— Tibor Fischer
Don't kiss me again," she begged softly as she stood.
— Iris Blobel
Drop by Bell's for an Irish Kiss anytime. The best in England
— JoAnne Kenrick
I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.
— Matthew Specktor
One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books.
— Heather Hart
I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.
— Sara Sheridan
I'm tired of the anonymity of being an unpublished author. I crave the anonymity of being self-published.
— Tristan Durie
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
— Don Marquis
A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.
— Tim O'Reilly
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
— Lev Grossman
What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers.
— Joni Rodgers
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
— Frank Iero
Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.
— A.P. Fuchs
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
— Doris Lessing
The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.
— John Hall Wheelock
A good book is not the same as a successful one.
— Johnny Rich
That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.
— Jim Harrison
Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others
— KJV Publishing
I do think people should be proud and supportive of their friends, in publishing and everywhere else.
— Kristan Higgins
It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
— Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!
— Carmen DeSousa
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.
— Marjorie Scardino
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
— Alan Paton
And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.
— Christy Romano
Yelling is a form of publishing
— Margaret Atwood
Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.
— Sara Sheridan
Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.
— Kristan Higgins
Persistence can look a lot like stupid.
— Kristen Lamb
Rejection is no badge of honour.
— Johnny Rich
The borders between different countries are, in truth, not real. They are a by-product of the ego.
— Christopher Dines
I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.
— Alan Furst
Is this okay?"Dex blinked. Okay? She couldn't have been any more
okay had she been dipped in marshmallow and rolled in coconut. — Amy Andrews
For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.
— Regina Doman
I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
— Mac Davis
Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.
— Desiree Rogers
I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.
— Andrew Wylie
Digital distribution has widened the reading world.
— Sara Sheridan
Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.
— Cassandra Clare
In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.
— Gabrielle Zevin
Originally, there were no man-made borders to divide and segregate lands on this beautiful planet.
— Christopher Dines
Blogging isn't about publishing as much as you can. It's about publishing as smart as you can.
— Jon Morrow
Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world.
— Molly Friedenfeld
Writing is a solitary endeavor, being an author is not.
— Karen A. Chase
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— Lake Union Publishing
I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.
— Alice Walker
