Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
I love the good old book with glue and binding, I really do, but that is just one way of experiencing text, and suddenly we have so many new ways, including our laptops, our phones, our watches. People in my generation agonize over this. People much younger than me don't agonize at all. They just go ahead and find ways to transform publishing.
You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.
I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. . . I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.
Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age. Its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.
Editing is the most companionable form of education.
A lot of people get to the point in their careers where blurbs are ghostwritten for them, because they're like, "I want to support this person, it's good for my career," and so they get someone at the publishing house to do it, or they copy something from the press release. People write their own blurbs, absolutely, some huge percentage of the time.
Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them.
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.
There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
In real life, I knew that fandom was made up of women, and women of color, and women of all ages. But on the publishing side of comics, it was a lot of white, straight men. It was often jarring to me to be the only women at a meeting or at a panel at a comic-con. Fortunately I had mentors who were not blinded by my gender and who said, "Yes, we know you can write these books. " That hasn't been the case for everyone. What gives me great hope is that in the eight to nine years since I've started, I've seen tremendous growth.
I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos