Publishing Quotes

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.'

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

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

I should have my own publishing companies.

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

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

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?

Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.

And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos.