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• New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Publishing, Stars

• I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

  Hugh Hefner

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  Tags in Publishing, Theories

• I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don’t make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves – people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.

  Chad Harbach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Publishing, Teach

• Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they’re salacious and funny and self-reflective.

  Michael Showalter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Publishing

• 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.

  R. A. Salvatore

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  Tags in Refining, Publishing

• Textbook publishers don’t even bother to advertise at their conventions.

  Peter Brimelow

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  Tags in Publishers, Publishing

• I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

  Daniel Berrigan

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  Tags in Publishing

• There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Newspaper, Publishing, Literature

• Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That’s the thing I really want to break into!

  Frank Iero

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  Tags in Publishing, Poetry, Thing, Musicians

• The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

  Seth Godin

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  Tags in Publishing, Connections

• There’s definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

  Sean Parker

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  Tags in Publishing

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

  Nicholas Sparks

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  Tags in Publishing, Down

• I’ve been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Topics in Break Up

  Tags in Literally, Publishing, Row, Up And Down

• Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it’s harder to break out than ever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Tags in Publishing, Examination

• 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.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Tags in Mysterious, Publishing, Advertising

• The money can be decent, but I really don’t recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

  Lynn Abbey

  Tags in Publishing, Route