Emily Dickinson
Poet
"Publication - is the auction of the mind."
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Publishing
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Jackie Kennedy
First Lady
"One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author."
Paul McCartney
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold."
Paul McCartney
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"The music publishing I own is fabulous recording."
Tanith Lee
Author
"When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!"
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"I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood."
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"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure."
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"I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career."
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"It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing."
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"Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works."
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"Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck."
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"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."
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