Top 100 Quotes About Publication
#1. We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.
Estelle Morris
#2. [The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.
Dan Beachy-Quick
#3. TIL when Einstein was told of the publication of a book entitled, '100 Authors Against Einstein', he replied: Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.
Anonymous
#4. I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.
Andrew Vachss
#5. The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.
Mary MacLane
#6. On the cover of this publication a bikini-clad young woman disported herself with a medicine ball, both articles looking as though they had been inflated with a bicycle pump.
John Mortimer
#7. The key to understanding my career is that I was never into technology. From the beginning, I brought an outsider's point of view, which is why I write for a layman's publication.
David Pogue
#8. I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago ... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.
Andrea Thompson
#9. There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
Margaret Atwood
#10. Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.
Nigel Hamilton
#11. The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.
Harlan Ellison
#12. Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
#13. The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose.
Michael A. Stackpole
#14. Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
Oscar Wilde
#15. Watson, if the newspapers could be punished for speculation, every publication in England would soon enough be bankrupted.
Lyndsay Faye
#16. The publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in the intellectual battle that was to turn the tide in favor of conservatism i.e. non-statist liberalism .
E. J. Dionne
#17. Writing for publication is an odd hybrid of intimate self-exploration and public exhibitionsim.
Talia Vance
#18. My very first publication was an estimator - this was a statistical procedure - a kind of invention. My father got a patent and started a business; it wasn't successful, but maybe I have some of him in me.
Robert J. Shiller
#19. Years ago, I did an interview about my mother for a publication called 'Info' magazine, and during that interview I told the reporter about my mother's leiomyosarcoma. She had had a hysterectomy, but at the time of it, the doctors didn't even think to look for sarcoma.
Peri Gilpin
#20. 'Intermediary liability' means that the intermediary, a service that acts as 'intermediate' conduit for the transmission or publication of information, is held liable or legally responsible for everything its users do.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#21. In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.
Alan Dershowitz
#22. The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.
George Sand
#23. It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.
Fanny Fern
#24. I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
Ted Chiang
#25. I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom.
John Adams
#26. Though it does seem like I have written an immense amount of work, over the years I have pushed the pause button. I have poems that I haven't sent out for publication, mostly based on political/social issues.
Denise Duhamel
#27. It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.
Thomas Jefferson
#28. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.
Anne Lamott
#29. Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.
Volkmar Sigusch
#30. To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.
Albert Camus
#31. We have several projects in the pipeline, but one of the rules we set for ourselves is we don't want to solicit or announce any projects that aren't ready for publication. I'm personally really tired of reading about titles that never come out.
Marc Guggenheim
#32. We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
Bill Gates
#33. I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street
Sam Walton
#34. An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.
Miranda July
#35. Write something therefore in a simple style, merely to pass the time, for your own use, and not for publication. Less labour is needed when one does not look beyond the present." Then
Seneca.
#36. If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.
Edsger Dijkstra
#37. When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
George Bernard Shaw
#38. Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.
Mike Quigley
#39. With a stranglehold of authority it banned the statement for its reproduction or publication in part or in full. The motive on the part of the Government was obvious. It did not want Gandhi to be exposed to the public. The
Anup SarDesai
#40. No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.
Timothy White
#41. Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.
Robert Munsch
#42. The road to publication can be rough, take snacks and a friend.
Elizabeth Hein
#43. Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
Daniel Alarcon
#44. The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.
Ben Goldacre
#45. I dreamed of becoming a writer. And ... this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book ...
Gloria Estefan
#46. Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.
Ariel Gore
#47. Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.
Gene Wolfe
#48. 'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.
Bobby Ghosh
#49. How it can be?" - Asked me - "so many years of work, and no one publication? Hmm ... "
When they say "Hmmm ...", argue impossible. Arguing makes sense only if ones say to you: "You have a broken link, here, on the eighth page. Reply on "Hmmm ..." You can say just: "Sorry, it happened
Pavel Amnuel
#50. Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
Karen Joy Fowler
#51. When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
Jay Asher
#52. The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it.
Michel Faber
#53. When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
Viktor E. Frankl
#54. You are what you do. That's what I'm trying to tell you. What we do defines us. However we behave, conduct our lives ... that's real. The rest is a story for publication.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#55. I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
Augusten Burroughs
#56. I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.
Ashwin Sanghi
#57. It wouldn't happen ... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey
Karl Pilkington
#58. I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#59. As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.
Seamus Heaney
#60. First Round has an opportunity: to create an entirely new kind of online publication, built for technology entrepreneurs, where they can learn how to build better companies.
Josh Kopelman
#61. The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.
Ezra Taft Benson
#62. I think after Christmas would be better for publication: I am hardly a Christmas present.
Oscar Wilde
#64. Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.
Benjamin Cohen
#65. Paste magazine has served as a tremendous window into culture for my house. I can think of no other publication that provides such critical yet entertaining thoughts on music, movies, books and gaming as Paste. My mailbox would be a dark place indeed without it.
Derek Webb
#66. THE TERRORISTS hoped their deadly attack would spell the end of Charlie Hebdo magazine, but the publication's staff is showing no sign of surrender.
Anonymous
#67. Just over one month from publication. The launch was really exciting and everyone had a lovely time. Thank you very much Blackwell's of Edinburgh for hosting the event.
Mary Bale
#68. There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.
Julius Streicher
#69. I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.
J.I. Packer
#70. Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.
Tim Cahill
#71. There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this simple rule: When faced with a choice of wagers or investments, choose the one with the highest geometric means of outcomes.
William Poundstone
#72. Stick with hard copies; they're harder to alter after publication. In the better world, there won't be any electronics at all.
Erika Johansen
#73. Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.
Herman Melville
#74. Tell the story that's in your heart. Write for your own pleasure, not anyone else's. Then, if and when you're ready, find a reputable editor who will be honest with you about the quality of your book and your chances of publication. But never, ever, stop enjoying writing or you will be lost
Jane Cable
#75. Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.
Joyce Carol Oates
#76. You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.
Matthew Rhys
#77. What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.
Janet Burroway
#78. AuthorLastName, FirstInitial. (Date of publication). Title of the article. Title of the Scholarly Journal, volume number, page range if applicable. Retrieved from URL.
Roger Doan
#79. One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses.
Noam Chomsky
#80. The L.A. Times, it's an anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times.
Mel Gibson
#81. I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.
John Pople
#82. You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.
Ngaio Marsh
#83. The Paperbats book. Successful publication release with 30 books downloaded in first day and a half.
"This delightful childrens' book has just been published on smashwords, where it can be read for free! I invite you to enjoy a lovely story with yany young children.
Jerry Evans
#84. Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.
Machado De Assis
#85. It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.
Denis Dutton
#86. Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.
Mario Testino
#87. I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication.
Justine Larbalestier
#88. It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at the center of the universe and that the world out there is on tenterhooks waiting for the next copy of whatever publication you work at.
Nora Ephron
#89. What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions.
Merton Miller
#91. They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
Ian Hislop
#92. The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.
Jay Asher
#93. I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#94. This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.
Paul Kane
#95. Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so.
Jack London
#96. Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned them all.
Gao Xingjian
#97. The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.
Timothy Ferriss
#98. First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
Hortense Calisher
#99. Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.
Chuck Klosterman
#100. Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later ... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.
Salvador Dali
