Top 917 Publishing Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

The publishing industry is not immune to gossips.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

WikiLeaks does not publish from the jurisdiction of Ecuador, from this embassy or in the territory of Ecuador; we publish from France, we publish from, from Germany, we publish from The Netherlands and from a number of other countries, so that the attempted squeeze on WikiLeaks is through my refugee status; and this is, this is really intolerable. [It means] that [they] are trying to get at a publishing organisation; [they] try and prevent it from publishing true information that is of intense interest to the American people and others about an election.

I'm really good at making software for publishing.

Now, almost twenty years since my last job in book publishing, I know that there are far more socially inept people in book than in magazine publishing. At the time, however, I just didn't feel I was enough: smart enough, savvy enough, well read enough, educated enough, charming enough. Much of this was probably because I was very naive, and didn't really know how to behave in an office. This made me a terrible assistant, which in turn made me a terrible junior book editor.

Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.

Publishing at a young age is not really an indicator of talent.

It's a wonderfully democratic method, publishing a text on the Internet.

In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these arrests. So for example, the Townhouse Gallery - the outreach director gave an interview to Ahram Online, which is a semi-official news agency here. And he sort of dismissed it, played it down. But the publisher from the publishing house - the Merit Publishing House, which was raided - he said this won't scare us; we will continue to dream of a free country, a country with social justice, and this won't silence us.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

There's no law preventing a journalist from publishing whatever they want.

Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it.

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

Yelling is a form of publishing

I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they don't know how to do their jobs. "I don't know how to sell this," they explain, frowning, as though it's your fault. "I don't know how to package this. I don't know what the market is for this book. I don't know how we're going to draw attention to this." In most occupations, people try to hide their incompetence; only in publishing is it flaunted as though it were the chief qualification for the job.

The Internet obviously changes things; we've seen that in the music industry above all else. As an author, I'm now having to deal with the fact that it's happening in the publishing industry as well. And publishing is going through a very difficult time. Some view it as positive, some negative, but nobody really knows how to deal with it. If you're an author it looks very challenging because your work can be pirated so easily and there's very little you can do about it.

You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only if you are convinced that to write is something for which there is no substitute in your life. You must therefore be ambitious for your work rather than for its promotion. The good news here is that if you assign secondary importance to publishing and primary to writing itself, you will write better, and will thus increase your odds of getting publishing.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

Don't sign your publishing away.

Publishing is a tough business.

The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

I should have my own publishing companies.

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

The wheels of publishing never slow down.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

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

As soon as you start publishing, you are the star and so people see you that way.

Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did. He shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

With the communication internet, whole industries have been disrupted. You're in the publishing industry, you understand that. Before, we had newspapers, magazines - now you're on the web. I'm in book publishing. I don't have to tell you what's happened to us. Television has taken a hit. The music industry. But, thousands of new businesses have emerged on this new communication revolution platform. Not just Google, Facebook, and Twitter. There are thousands of operations. Businesses that are doing the platforms, the apps. They're mining the big data. They're creating the connections.

The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.

The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era.

I am a co-writer of 'Survivor,' so there's publishing that I'll receive for some of the records.

Don't sell your publishing.

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

Publishing and film are such different worlds for writers.

Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women, most of the editors are women, and these are books written for the female gaze. And so my point of view - the way I looked at fandom and publishing and writing - was all about women. So for me that's what was natural, that's what was comfortable. And then I moved over to comics. And all of a sudden it was... Pardon the expression, it was a sausage fest.

Publishing is not my world.

Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.

My mother obviously was in the publishing business.

Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck.