#publishing

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. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#am #avoided #dare #fiction #found

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#business #comes #dollars #done #down

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#essentially #journalism #never #nor #profession

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938. ↗

— George Stigler

#price #publishing #started #theory #working

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, “if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me? ↗

— Charles Stross

#contract-law #contracts #publishing #worst-case-scenarios #business

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there’s no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he’s lying, and you’re being taken. ↗

— Mike Stackpole

#negotiation #publishing #scammers #business

Stop thinking “Outside the box” and look what is actually in the box first. You jump around from marketing gimmick to marketing gimmick without a clear plan or goal, hoping to reproduce someone else’s success without understanding all of the nuances and factors that went into that success. Further, people are so busy recreating the wheel that they have forgotten what the wheel looks like. ↗

— Julie Ann Dawson

#marketing #publishing #business

It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” he said. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.” Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal. New York Times, 10/16/2011 ↗

— Russell Grandinetti

#e-books #libraries #publishing #change

There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters. ↗

— T.L. Rese

#rejection #writing-life #death

‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing ↗

— Mariam Kobras

#dreams #novels #poetry #publishing #writing