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Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.
Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.
What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.
The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
I'm really good at making software for publishing.
It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.
Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.
I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.
I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.
Think like a publisher, not a marketer.
The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
Don't give up. Research like crazy. Join a writer's organization. Read books on the publishing world. It all helps!
It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.
Yelling is a form of publishing
It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.
Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing ...
It's not publishing that matters; it's not writing that matters. What matters is feeling alive while writing, washing dishes, driving, etc. Writing just gives you a solid place to land some of that God energy that is already within you.
The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.
If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.
The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.
The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.
As soon as you start publishing, you are the star and so people see you that way.
Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram
it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar.
I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.'
I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.
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.
A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work.
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
I should have my own publishing companies.
Remember, finding a publisher is a lot like a date. You can submit willfully and keep getting rejected, but in the end, you can always self-publish yourself.
It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.
To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.
Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world.
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three key parties in commercial media: the audience, the author/creator and the marketer.
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
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.
Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not enough to get you where you need to be.
The road to publication can be rough, take snacks and a friend.
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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.
I'd never been published when I was young.
It takes a long time to publish a book.
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
Write the unpublishable...and then publish it.
The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.
Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.
Publish in haste and repent at leisure.
Blogging isn't about publishing as much as you can. It's about publishing as smart as you can.
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.
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.
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
Writing a novel takes creativity. Publishing it takes courage
I have to chuckle at all these Twitter accounts proclaiming "published author". That's the easy part. Selling is harder.
I don't need to publish to make a living.
I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.
If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.
People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.
For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.
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Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.
When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material, for fact-checking material. I mean literally, the act of putting something out in public used to be reserved in the same way.
Finding an Agent is not a problem.
Finding a publisher is not a problem.
Finding readers now that's a problem.
Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.
Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.
Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.
Every small business has to become a publisher - a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.
I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.
I write for those who desire, not publication at any cost, but publication one can be proud of
serious, honest fiction, the kind of novel that readers will find they enjoy reading more than once, the kind of fiction likely to survive.
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.
To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important ... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Getting published is a matter of luck. The more we rewrite, the luckier we get.
For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only an option. I might publish this, I might not. I think if I had to publish it, I might panic.
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.
We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money ...
If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.
My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.