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Publishing Quotes (page 9)

When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword) John Irving
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself. John Gardner
No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including all the lost books and the ones that the authors burned when they came back from the last publisher. Evelyn Waugh
I'm certified as an instructor and I do teach courses at a cram school, but I'm not exactly a teacher. I write fiction, but I've never been published, so I'm not a writer yet, either." "You're nothing." Tengo nodded. "Exactly. For the moment, I'm nothing. Haruki Murakami
Joss Whedon quote: "Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, saut it, whatever...."
Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, saut it, whatever. MAKE. Joss Whedon
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again"1. Journalists sometimes make things up.2. Journalists sometimes get things wrong.3. Almost all books that are published as memoirs were initially written as novels, and then the agent/editor said, This might work better as a memoir.6. Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one. Nora Ephron
Richard Bach quote: "Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is..."
Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world. Richard Bach
If anyone in your publishing life were to argue against a particular book or a career aspiration for reasons you had not already pondered and rejected after careful analysis, if they dazzled you with brilliant new considerations, then you’d have to back off and revisit your decisions. But what I was told never dazzled me. For example, I was often advised, by different people, that my work would never gain a big audience because my vocabulary was too large. Dean Koontz
He who combines the useful and the pleasing wins out by both instructing and delighting the reader. That is the sort of book that will make money for the publisher, cross the seas, and extend the fame of the author. Horace
Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one’s way in the dark. Roberto Bolano
Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him, simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative. A. J. Liebling
This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I will go back to writing my poems, such as they are, find a job to keep body and soul together, and make no attempt to be published. Roberto Bolano
Salman Rushdie quote: "OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well,..."
OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless. Salman Rushdie
I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some things now as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself Toni Morrison when I published my first novel, The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison
George Ade quote: "After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to..."
After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity. George Ade

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