A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.
I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.
Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.
In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.
The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!
Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful about my books, often in 140 characters or less! It's a very casual, low-stakes, non-burdensome way of connecting that I think is fun for both the writer and the reader. And there are a lot of clever people out there who have no connection to publishing.
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos
Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck.
With comics, you can only really learn what you're doing wrong or what works best when you see your work published. I've been publishing comics since my 20s, and still, when I flip through any of my new comics, I still only see the things that I wish I'd done better. But that's how you learn, by seeing it.
In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.