230 Quotes About Publishing
- Author Margaret Atwood
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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.
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- Author Jayce O'Neal
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You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.
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- Author Don DeLillo
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It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.
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- Author Roman Payne
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Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?
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- Author Fran Lebowitz
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Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.
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- Author Karl Pilkington
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It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Real writing is about changing lives for eternity rather than entertaining a life for a moment.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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It's really not about reading a good book. Rather, it about being transformed by great ideas.
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- Author Lizz Clements
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It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.
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