A Quote by Kate Thompson

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.

Kate Thompson

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Agents Always Destroying Get Give Kind More Nagging Publicity Publishers Soul Them Time Want Writers

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Kate Thompson
Irish - Novelist
Born: November 16, 1959

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

John Berger

I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.

Muhammad Ali

I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity.

Kevin Whately

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Joseph Pulitzer

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

Brigitte Bardot

????Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.

Michael O'Leary

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

E. M. Forster

The emerging notion of the Eighties was that publicity was a currency. The old view was that if you had a currency - your talent or your product - publicity might draw attention to it. The new view was that publicity in itself, highlighting you, bestowed value.

Michael Wolff

Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.

LaToya London

I understand you always want drama leading up to the fight. You want whatever publicity you can get for it. It's more appealing for fans, for media for everything.

Liz Carmouche

For a lot of people, when something happens that gives them 15 minutes of fame, they try to create something new out of that. I was really fortunate. For a professional speaker, it is all about press, publicity and PR, so to get that much free publicity ... it made life a lot easier.

Judson Laipply

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

Jeremy Bentham

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

Ann Goldstein

Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.