Top 100 Quotes About Publication

#1. THIS little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication.

Jane Austen

#2. When you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when you want to get that publication in The New York Times or wherever? It encourages people to play right into it.

Carl Hart

#3. And then, after publication of Bob Woodward's book Obama's Wars

Robert M. Gates

#4. My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.

Lynsey Addario

#5. Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

Calvin Klein

#6. Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

Joseph O'Neill

#7. In general I do not draw well with literary men
not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

Lord Byron

#8. The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more than they could possibly handle at normal reading rates.

Tony Buzan

#9. With the publication of this book we, as non-Jews, are doing our small part to stand up for the truth. So let us state unequivocally here and now: the Holocaust happened EXACTLY as per the history books. Period. Fact. No debate whatsoever.

James Morcan

#10. I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

Hilary Liftin

#11. An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

George Bernard Shaw

#12. Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

Anne Lamott

#13. I'm sometimes shocked by the way scientists huddle behind closed doors to discuss important research results without informing the public about them at all. Academic caution is often preferable to premature publication, but fear can also destroy opportunities.

Giulia Enders

#14. I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.

Hilary Mantel

#15. Yes, things happen for a reason, just not any good reason. (from Crystal Ships, publication pending)

Richard G. Sharp

#16. I am only as good as my last publication. Guess I am doing ok in that area.

Sandi Johnson

#17. Many people know that Shakespeare's dramatic 'canon' was established in 1623 by the publication of the so-called First Folio. That hefty volume contained thirty-six plays.

Michael Dirda

#18. Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all I want to read or hear is praise.

Truman Capote

#19. Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.

Kate Christensen

#20. It will reward enough for me if, by the publication of the present experiment, I have directed the attention of investigators to this subject, which still promises much for physical optics and appears to open a new field.

Joseph Von Fraunhofer

#21. The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.

Douglass North

#22. There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real, complex biochemical system either did occur or even might have occurred.

Michael Behe

#23. As mankind 'matures,' as it becomes more possible to be frank in the scrutiny of the self and others and in the publication of one's findings, biography and autobiography will take the place of fiction for the investigation and discussion of character.

H.G.Wells

#24. Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.

Jo Linsdell

#25. I know the name of Turkey's leading avant-guard publication. I know that John Quincy Adams married for money. I know that Bud Abbott was a double-crosser, that absentee ballots are very popular in Ireland, and that dwarves have prominent buttocks.

A. J. Jacobs

#26. The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure.

Elliott Abrams

#27. An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#28. If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication.

Sunday Adelaja

#29. It is publication week for my new novel 'The Sunshine Cruise Company.' Go me! Anyway, I may as well get the shameless plug over with right away - buy it. You'll like it. It's about a bunch of old ladies who rob a bank.

John Niven

#30. But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Michael Shermer

#31. I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.

Steven Pinker

#32. Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality ... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

Dan Simmons

#33. People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories. We are a creation of this business, which is fast, mean, tough, sometimes artistic, sometimes horrible.

John Fairchild

#34. Autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

George Eliot

#35. Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book was delayed because the printer ran out of capital I's.

John Colville

#36. RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox

Cameron Crowe

#37. American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic ... The publication, in full and integrated form, of the remarkable correspondence between these two eminent men is a notable event.

Dumas Malone

#38. Five people read my work before its ready for publication, and I solicit opinions from all of them: my wife, my agent, my editor, and my parents.

Jesse Kellerman

#39. Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Madame De Stael

#40. If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

George Bernard Shaw

#41. I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.

Siri Hustvedt

#42. As many reports reveal, the CIA continues to cultivate "assets" in the mainstream media, and meets with top editors to to discourage or delay the publication of controversial news.

Anonymous

#43. The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

Theodore Sturgeon

#44. A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#45. This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

Robert B. Parker

#46. One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.

Darin Strauss

#47. If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it.

Tibor Kalman

#48. Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

Marshall McLuhan

#49. I could probably say a lot of things, but I'm not sure they'd be fit for publication.

Jade Puget

#50. It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!

Viktor Korchnoi

#51. Mr. Zweig always encouraged his friends to set down their reminiscences, not necessarily for publication but for the pleasure and benefit of their children, their families. In his opinion every life includes inner or external experiences worthy of record.

Stefan Zweig

#52. An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New ...

Catherine Townsend-Lyon

#53. TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they're so bad and uninformed. It's insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC's, we all laugh at TechCrunch.

Jason Calacanis

#54. There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

Douglas Hofstadter

#55. I write for those who desire, not publication at any cost, but publication one can be proud of
serious, honest fiction, the kind of novel that readers will find they enjoy reading more than once, the kind of fiction likely to survive.

John Gardner

#56. My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.

Elena Ferrante

#57. My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.

Linda Sue Park

#58. I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

Ken Burns

#59. Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay.

Gene Wolfe

#60. It's a small publication dedicated to a scholarly discourse of the Osamaverse.

Lavie Tidhar

#61. During the two centuries since the publication of 'The Wealth of Nations,' the main activity of economists, it seems to me, has been to fill the gaps in Adam Smith's system, to correct his errors and to make his analysis vastly more exact.

Ronald Coase

#62. For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.

Adrian Tomine

#63. If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just traditional journal publication. Networked science must be open science.

Michael Nielsen

#64. In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund

David Alan Harvey

#65. The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present -day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

Vannevar Bush

#66. Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Salvador Dali

#67. What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

Ashton Kutcher

#68. You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell you really don't want to cry. As a tear falls between by breasts, I look away and pretend the grass is a jungle, and the ants, little kings of forgotten tribes.

Virginia Petrucci

#69. Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I?
Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

Oscar Wilde

#70. Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Jojo Moyes

#71. The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

Raymond Chandler

#72. Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of the necessary qualities, such as self-interest, news, or curiosity.

John Caples

#73. Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.

Niklaus Wirth

#74. Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

J.K. Rowling

#75. Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

Alfred Stieglitz

#76. It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.

Tom Wicker

#77. I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, "Tarzan and the Lost Empire", there are 31 books on my list.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#78. I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct
a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.

Virgil Suarez

#79. Publication - is the auction of the mind ...

Emily Dickinson

#80. We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.

Pamela Glass Kelly

#81. I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

Anne Tyler

#82. Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally.

Courtney Love

#83. You can't jump to the top of the mountain, you have to climb. It's the tiny steps that will get you to the top.

Dee Dee M. Scott

#84. My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.

Marilynne Robinson

#85. The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

Rudolf Hilferding

#86. News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

Benjamin Disraeli

#87. I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.

Anne Lamott

#88. From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look witheringly at them and snarl, 'What do you think?' I mean, how do you imagine anyone writes a quarter of a million words a year for publication?

Will Self

#89. I'd just like to point out that almost all of these stories in this collection were rejected by some publication at one time or another, some of them have been rejected a lot, in fact. Find people you trust and listen to them.

Arthur Bradford

#90. It's very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don't seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.

Ben Bradlee

#91. A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

Martin Filler

#92. Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram
it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar.

Anne Lamott

#93. publication can be reproduced or transmitted

Emily March

#94. When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.

Nancy Kress

#95. Oh, how often have I cursed those foolish pages of mine which made my youthful sufferings public property! Goethe wrote years after the publication of The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Maggie Nelson

#96. The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.

Frederic G. Kenyon

#97. Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

George Bernard Shaw

#98. It is important to have a reliable and substantive publication such as World Screen available as a source for information. The magazine's reporting is always on the cutting edge of the global television business.

Jeffrey Bewkes

#99. My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Robert Cormier

#100. The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.

Dick Costolo

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