Publish Quotes

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

On the web, you are what you publish.

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.

I am my brain's publisher.

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

Publication - is the auction of the mind.

Corporations that are turning over these huge profits can own everything: the media, the universities, the mines, the weapons industry, insurance hospitals, drug companies, non-governmental organisations. They can buy judges, journalists, politicians, publishing houses, television stations, bookshops and even activists. This kind of monopoly, this cross-ownership of businesses, has to stop.

Work, finish, publish.

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.

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

We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a classmate, someone who shares your interests. Before sending off the manuscript for a novel to a publishing house, it would be a good idea to try writing short stories, and publishing them in a local magazine.

Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

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

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

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

Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.