#publishing

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people. ↗

— Kenneth Anger

#changing #firm #i #lawyer #legal

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#american #because #become #force #had

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#big #future #huge #lies #medium-sized

The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously. For example, it has been brought to my attention that our ability to continue to pay the hordes of people employed by M&S (God knows how many mouths have to be fed) depends directly on the number of copies of your new book [Life Before Man] that we are able to sell between September and Christmas. In past I have been able to treat this whole thing as a fun game. I have never been troubled by the cavalier explanations about lost manuscripts and fuck-ups of various sorts. Now I have learned that this is a deadly serious game. I don't laugh at jokes about the Canadian postal service. I cry. (in a letter to author Margaret Atwood, dated February, 1979) ↗

— Jack McClelland

#editor #humor #margaret-atwood #publishing #writing

To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat. ↗

— Gerard de Marigny

#self-publishing #writing #writing-advice #writing-as-a-profession #inspirational

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#am #avoided #dare #fiction #found

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#am #avoided #dare #fiction #found

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#copyright #creativity #expanded #forms #going

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#familiar #first #form #had #publisher

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#essentially #journalism #never #nor #profession