230 Quotes About Publishing

When writing your first works, don’t be put off by having each word perfect. At the publishing level, we look for ideas and a spark. It’s a collaborative process but it begins with YOU.

The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.

Fight the System! Or become a statistic!

That 'power grab' of Netflix has only led to an incridible amount of horrendous mediocrity. They should simply have focussed on collecting the best series in the world instead of producing them. Its as if a poetry collector suddenly thinks he should become the biggest publisher in the world. Cut out the middle men, but what if those middle men are you?

In this age where people can become famous without doing anything, we are now encouraging a literary and publishing atmosphere where you must become famous before you can do anything.

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't.

If you dive for it, you will find it. Who says there is no pearls in the ocean?

Bookshops are at the coalface of our industry.