Publishing Quotes

• Like a lot of small press founders I was looking for a way into publishing - as well as a way out of academia. Without moving to London, I couldn't see a way of working for a publishing house whose work I liked. Believe it or not, the simplest way for me to get into publishing was to start my own press.

  

  Andrew Latimer Camel
  • Believe
  • House
  • Moving

• If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • World
  • Money
  • Art

• Hatori: "SHIGURE... I WILL TELL EVERYONE IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT YOU, STARTING FROM WHEN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS OLD..." Shigure: "Sorry, Tohru-kun. My lips are sealed!

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Industry
  • Lips
  • Sealed

• Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Mean
  • Film
  • Memories

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

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Writing
  • Doors
  • Noses

• I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Book
  • Write
  • Bankrupt

• 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.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Artist
  • Dissent
  • Brewing

• 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.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Writing
  • Christian
  • Fiction

• There's a reason that so much good material is coming down to the small presses: it's difficult to turn a profit, all things considered. But you can't go into small press publishing and complain about the money. Our Little Island publishing just needs to survive. If we're still around in a few years - in vaguely the same shape as we are today - then, to me, that's success.

  

  Andrew Latimer Camel
  • Today
  • Reason
  • Difficult

• One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.

  

  Andrew Latimer Camel
  • Book
  • Excited
  • Publishing

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

  

  Sean Lennon
  • Attention
  • Term
  • Publishing

• Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.

  

  Ben Clymer
  • Independent
  • Voice
  • Publishing

• With iPad publishing, you can try new things, experiment, and even launch new magazines without the massive risk normally associated with print publishing. The future is digital, so there will be a digital version of everything we do going forward. There has to be. The cheese has been moved.

  

  Scott Kelby
  • Trying
  • Risk
  • Moved

• I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. If they have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers; if not, they won’t. . . . I very much love those mysterious volumes, both ancient and modern, that have no definite author but have had and continue to have an intense life of their own. They seem to me a sort of nighttime miracle, like the gifts of the Befana, which I waited for as a child. . . . True miracles are the ones whose makers will never be known. . . . Besides, isn’t it true that promotion is expensive? I will be the least expensive author of the publishing house. I’ll spare you even my presence.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Books
  • Readers
  • Authors

• There's still sexism in the world, so there's still sexism in publishing and in graduate school. But it is different. Now, it's more coded and harder to detect. It was more explicit when I was in school. There were no rules against male professors asking out female students. The reverse didn't happen since female professors were rare or nonexistent. Visiting writers came, 90% of them male, and some expected that a female student would materialize as his date for the visit.

  

  Debra Monroe
  • Writers
  • Visit
  • Professors

• I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle of a big transition, and that the rules of the game are still sorting themselves out.

  

  Brad Listi
  • Game
  • Writer
  • Rules

• The magazine business is dying. It's a hard time for publishing. It does seem that everyone is much more opinionated now. I think there's probably more room for making opinionated illustrations. There was a time when Time magazine and Newsweek would have a realistic painted cover. A friend of mine used to do a lot of those paintings and he was told by the art director at one point, we are switching to photography. It seems that if someone saw a painting on a cover, it took a while to do, it must be old news. Photography became more immediate.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Business
  • Photography
  • Illustrations

• You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.

  

  David Meerman Scott
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Creating

• The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Moral
  • Journalism
  • Journalist

• Launching Collins in the U.S. fulfills the original vision of the 1989 union of Harper & Row and William Collins. Publishing has clarified the many benefits of working as a global company. I believe that a true 21st century publisher is a global publisher. Harper Collins is well on its way.

  

  David D. Friedman
  • Believe
  • Vision
  • Benefits

• What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Head
  • Twilight
  • Publishing

• A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.

  

  Bradley Joseph
  • Helping
  • Talent
  • Musician

• My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells.

  

  Harry Lloyd
  • Parents
  • Books
  • Publishing

• The highlight of my career was my first sale, to F&SF, in 1989. Nothing yet has topped that moment. I was weeping in joy and relief. Publishing one story was all that I ever wanted, or expected. Everything since then - award nominations, getting into best-of anthologies, meeting my idols at conventions, drinking with my idols at conventions - has been wonderful, but it's all gravy.

  

  Daryl Gregory
  • Moments
  • Wonderful
  • Drinking

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