Publishing Quotes

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a ...

Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can f...

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy pettin...

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speak...

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and speci...

But just understand the difference between a man like Reardon and a man like me. He is the old type ...

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

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike ...

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours ...

It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself a...

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles dr...

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to ...

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't b...

Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why...

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optim...

What has seven editions (the book had already gone into no less) got to do with the value of it? Was...

Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust i...

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who...

Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the ea...

Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had und...

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, ...

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular ex...