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Nicholas Sparks quote: "Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing,..."
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. Nicholas Sparks
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. Hunter S. Thompson
Don Marquis quote: "Publishing a volume of poetry today is like dropping a..."
Publishing a volume of poetry today is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis
J. D. Salinger quote: "publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to..."
...publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. J. D. Salinger
Published in this month's Harper's, from a conversation held in Beijing in February 1973: Chairman Mao Zedong: Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million. U. S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger: The chairman is improving his offer. Mao: We can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things. They give birth to children, and our children are too many. Mao Zedong
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be. Margaret Atwood
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a..."
Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. Thomas Wolfe
Duke of Wellington quote: "Publish and be dammed."
Publish and be dammed. Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley quote: "Publish and be damned."
Publish and be damned. Arthur Wellesley
Paulo Coelho quote: "Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age."
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho quote: "Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the..."
Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book. Paulo Coelho
Don Marquis quote: "Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal..."
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis
Henry R. Luce quote: "Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not..."
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession. Henry R. Luce
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn. Tim Cahill

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