#publishing

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#business #commercialized #i #never #north

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#far #fewer #publishers #publishing #significant

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#ideas #industry #publishing #received #weren

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#career #go #i #publishing #willing

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#authorship #difficulties #find #honest #honest men

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history. ↗

— Rick James

#anymore #artist #because #company #dollars

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first. ↗

— Seth Godin

#books #bunch #economics #favor #first

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#publishing #rejections #fame

Always be "opportunity-ready" - The greatest door-opening opportunities often come in the form of objections. ↗

— Lisa Washington

#motivational #muse #publishing #writing #inspirational

If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#away #company #contact #cut #deal