#publish

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#box #box office #budget #fake #horrified

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood. ↗

— Mac Davis

#hollywood #i #publishing #publishing company #worked

I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on. ↗

— Marc Davis

#did #had #hollywood #i #me

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject. ↗

— David Douglass

#field #i #i can #knowledge #none

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely. ↗

— Greg Egan

#book #boom #easier #edition #first

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets. ↗

— Anita Diament

#already #any #before #book #came

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#now #publishing #well #world #yes

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#anyone #anything #i #publish #relieved

According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it. ↗

— Jay Leno

#bill #bill clinton #book #clinton #duh

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#big #did #i #interviews #look