Publishing Quotes - page 11

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves. (Jackson Browne)
It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before. View quote
Jackson Browne
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on. View quote
Julian Assange
As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly. View quote
Julian Assange
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. View quote
Alan Paton
The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are. View quote
Tibor Fischer
At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before. View quote
José Saramago
Haaj Imad Mughniyah was martyred brutally and now they are launching a campaign against him. Nowadays they are publishing thousands of article in Western and Arab World media in which this great man is accused of having committed a long list of terrorist acts and other deeds, while he is no longer alive to defend himself. View quote
Imad Mughniyah
Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest. View quote
Mark Skousen
The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not good for the little books. And really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. In the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. Because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation. It's heart-breaking how often I have to say when I'm giving talks, "This book is out of print. This book is out of print." View quote
Doris Lessing
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' (Doris Lessing)
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. View quote
Doris Lessing
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first. View quote
Seth Godin
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. View quote
Seth Godin
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. View quote
Salman Rushdie
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response. View quote
Jhumpa Lahiri
What the Hell is Wrong with the Washington Post? Another unrepentant, genocidal terrorist is given op-ed column space in the Washington Post... The Washington Post has truly hit bottom now. They owe the United States an apology for publishing this disgusting terrorist propaganda... View quote
Charles Foster Johnson
If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all. View quote
Donald E. Westlake
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. View quote
Donald E. Westlake
With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was. View quote
Felix Dennis
Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man. (Felix Dennis)
I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that? View quote
Felix Dennis
At the risk of over-generalizing, my sense is that American poetry, where popular culture is concerned, is a poetry of freedom and permission-that there are certainly poets who embrace it and have enjoyed success, from a publishing perspective, in embracing it... View quote
Francisco Aragón
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. View quote
Shimon Peres
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. View quote
Dave Eggers