(276 quotes found)
“The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.”
John Hall Wheelock
“I thought nobody in his right mind was going to publish a book for kids by me -- not if they've read my adult fiction,”
Carl Hiaasen
“I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property”
Oscar Wilde
“There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs”
Will Rogers
“Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.”
Marshall McLuhan
“It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.”
Alexander Hamilton
“We used the protocols and source code that was published on AOL's Web site. We looked at the documentation on the Web site, and we believe we are in full compliance. We tried to contact AOL [about our product plans], but they did not return any of our phone calls or e-mails.”
Beth Nagengast
“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.”
Tanith Lee
“A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among people who write and publish them, is that they did get to be in this unrecognized ghetto for a long time.”
Daniel Handler
