Publish Quotes - Page 2

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.

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

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

Publish and be damned.

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

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

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

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

Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

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

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.

I feel it is correct to publish the salaries.

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

I work just as much as I always worked. And I can't explain the fact that there have been a series of books coming rather regularly out of me. I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.