Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

Robert Gottlieb

What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.

With new initiatives under way in every area of the business, the revitalization of MSLO is firmly underway. Third-quarter earnings were modestly ahead of expectation, largely on the strength of our core publishing business.

There are core industries in Manhattan that are thriving, despite the recession, and publishing is one of them.

Jan Karon

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

Gabrielle Zevin

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

Gabrielle Zevin

I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

Ellen Potter

Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.

The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.

In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishing house.

Karen Joy Fowler

The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.

Kage Baker

Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.

Jasmine Cresswell

I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.

Barry Diller

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves.

Meghan Trainor

When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

Ashwin Sanghi

The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent.

Tim Bray

Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.

Jason Epstein

The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.

Kate Klise

Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.

Matthew Sweet

I got better money playing live and some publishing money - I still get checks from publishing. But the label was always recouping advances.

Linda Ronstadt

I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a kiss-and-tell book, which I specifically put in the contract. Just a book about my work and what I did.

If the analyst is communicating his findings to a select group of people and it might lead to proprietary trading by his employer, then you might have problems. But if he is publishing information for a widespread audience, I have less of a problem with it,

I always have a desire of writing an Autobiography.But,there's one question that bothers me a lot.I'm confused of when I should do this task,after having been famous or would I become famous after publishing it?

We're in the midst of the U.S. reporting season, which looks pretty good. Companies in Europe seem to have been publishing good numbers, so I think the fundamentals are still pretty positive.

We're in the business of publishing but we see this as a new profit center.

If we joined, we couldn't share any identifying information about MARA members, so if we found someone in the group publishing virus source code, or co-authoring articles with known virus writers, we couldn't divulge that information.

If they're going to get a venture-capital rate of return on what has traditionally been a slow growth business, they will have to revolutionize the educational publishing market.

Charlie Daniels

I don't have any real "process." Some people in Nashville go in like an assembly line. They're able to go and write. My son runs a publishing company. He has writers that come down. They get together in a room with the people that actually make appointments, and write - which is great. I can't do that very well.

Good and reasonable people will disagree, but he feels the academy is wrong and that the consequences of publishing could be dire,

Rebecca Stead

I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect.

Jennifer Armstrong

Cellar Roots has great potential. We want to continue publishing EMU students' writing and artwork. It is important as a resume builder as well as a source for gaining writing and publishing experience. It is an important part of our mission to continue doing this.

Because of the first worm, too many people were suddenly starting to think about and investigate the possibility of writing a Mac OS X worm. Publishing the exploit as fast as possible is the best for all Apple users. I think at the end of the week, every Apple user will know about it.