Quotes about Publishing

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.

On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author's existence beyond the limits he envisioned, or provides a living author with a future he cannot measure. In other words, this business deals with the future which we all prefer to regard as unending.

1906 Anne of Green Gables is rejected by four publishers. Montgomery puts the manuscript away in a hatbox.

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For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more important to write than it is to study about writing.

Putnam increased the first print run to 75,000 copies, more than any science fiction hardcover printing in history.

Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country; nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it. I'm going to do it because I have something important to say to the world. I refuse to let anything get in my way.

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

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.