Top 995 Desktop Publishing Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves.

If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

I was 17 when I wrote a collection of short stories and wanted it published but it didn't happen. A lot of publishing houses don't allow young authors to enter into writing segments.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

In the publishing sense, 'urban fantasy' does not mean 'black,' and that's pretty ironic, considering that it's a euphemism everywhere else. It would be great to get that back.

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.

Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.

The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

For all of us involved in preaching the gospel, performing music, publishing Christian materials, and all the rest, there is an uncomfortable message here: Jesus is not terribly impressed with religious commercialism

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

From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.

Johnson Publishing Co. has always had a first-class image. And until the day I die, I want to keep that image.

When people warn me about someone - the label head or the publishing head - that somebody is difficult, I'm in heaven.

I love digital books. And I actually started digital-first publishing back in 2005.

I will not apologize ever, for any reason, for publishing the views of people who don't make a living in politics about why they plan to vote a certain way.

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

I believe we should come down very firmly on the guilty without infringing the civil liberties of the innocent, like publishing mobile phone bills.

I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to operate at any length. That also means shorter stuff, too.

The publishing world has been very slow to adapt to the digital world.

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.

For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films and television programs, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people want to have, is to keep publishing alive.

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand for something.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

A cool thing about enthusiast press is the low barrier to entry. Anyone can decide they want to set out on this path and start publishing immediately.

Co-creation is much more work than writing somewhere in a hidden corner and then publishing your content. However, the benefits outweigh the costs.

When I'm online and I see a picture I want to draw of anybody or anything, a unique angle of them or just something that looks very drawable, I slide it to my desktop and put it in a folder. It just seems like every picture of Trump is a revelation. Any angle. I didn't know a person could look like that. His facial expressions - he really is a cartoon. He's like an instruction manual of how to caricature someone.

I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock.

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

I didn't do anything but write for six months after I got my publishing deal. That was just trying to get better and figure out my sound and the way I like to do it.

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.

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.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.

Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.

We all have our notions of sport. If I'd wanted to make my living climbing mountains, I wouldn't have gone into publishing. Most of the time, you're sitting in a dark room reading a manuscript.

If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.

We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

I want to have a publishing company and a record label, and I want to manage five artists... eventually.

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91.