Quotes on Publishing

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.

I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing. . . If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

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.

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