Publishing Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.