Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I`ll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
- Jackson BrowneIt was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
- Jackson BrowneOne of the things that`s great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making. There are so many people who are cogs in the great wheel of the city that a less bright light is shone on our lives. It still exists - there are always paparazzi at our house - but being a public person feels less like a business than it does in LA. And you have to approach it differently. I can`t hide behind gates, or in a car, but if I can get a few yards from my front door, I can still get lost in a crowd. I am always moments, just moments, from obscurity on a crowded street in New York.
- Sarah Jessica Parker(On publishing Playboy magazine) "If there was going to be a sexual revolution, I would be its pamphleteer."
- Hugh M. HefnerWhat I think is extraordinary, apart from the inherent values of the ideas, is that we were experiencing ourselves a historic moment in the life of the Internet, an example of how massive publishing power is in the hands of anyone with access to a PC.
- Baz LuhrmannPublishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
- Henry R. LuceThis acquisition will allow us to offer our customers services for every stage of the graphic arts production process. Cross-selling a more diverse range of products and services, including educational product development, catalog design and execution, as well as complete magazine publishing and advertising management services, will help us grow our business. In addition, our new presence in New York will enable us to better serve our clients there and strengthen our position among New York`s heavy concentration of advertising agencies and publishers.
- John ReillyI`ve been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.
- Steven Curtis ChapmanPublishing 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 CahillThis change is part of the management succession process designed to ensure that our Company will continue to grow well into the future. Mike Hyatt has served ably as President and Chief Operating Officer for the past 18 months, demonstrating a deep understanding of the publishing and operational sides of our business, as well as an inspiring talent for leadership.
- Sam MooreI should have my own publishing companies.
- Solomon BurkeI didn`t need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I`d have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.
- Solomon BurkeI didn`t know anything about publishing companies. I didn`t know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know.
- Ike TurnerTo the extent that `60s guys own things, yes... but I don`t have the publishing, just like most `60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.
- John SebastianI didn`t think before that I`d done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I`m now ready to tell my story.
- Cilla BlackAlan`s publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that`s where all the publishers were.
- Johnny RiversI didn`t go to the right schools, didn`t come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
- Matt DrudgeBecause publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it`s harder to break out than ever.
- Nicholas SparksPublishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
- Nicholas SparksI maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
- Piers AnthonyIf you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let`s cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
- Wayne CoyneI would definitely think we`re back in a moment like Whitman was in, in the early 19th century, in which self-publishing is a very real thing, but it`s increasingly requiring a level of skill that not everybody can attain.
- Matt CohenWe`ve never had a gold record. We make more money from being active, working, publishing, we have a great catalog. We never really had any hits.
- Thurston MooreThe 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 FerlinghettiBecause most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
- Jim HarrisonIf you talk to companies like Massive Inc., they will say that they know who is seeing their ads. But what many advertisers are waiting for is somebody who`s independent to say, yes, that cola ad got 200,000 impressions within the game `Splinter Cell` last week, for example. Absolutely nobody is publishing what could be classified as extensive data on that as of yet.
- Paul JacksonRehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
- Peter ShafferI spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest.
- Laura HillenbrandEragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, ... Even as he has gone through his coming-of-age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming-of-age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon`s, but fortunately, I don`t have people charging at me with swords.
- Christopher PaoliniWe 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 LessigWhen I started publishing books, I started looking at distribution and realized there were some things that need to be done. The Asian Review of Books is one.
- Peter GordonAll of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
- Donald E. WestlakeIf it weren`t for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn`t have any ideas at all.
- Donald E. WestlakePublishing is tough. As a writer, if I`d murdered my family, that`d be a great gift, not to my family maybe, but definitely to my book. Oprah`s defense (of Frey) just doesn`t work. You can`t say a memoir is 90% true. Which 90%? It`s cheating.
- Daniel WallacePlanet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.
- Rob WaltonI was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
- Daniel BerriganYes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.
- Thomas FriedmanI wouldn`t encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn`t wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.
- Anne McCaffreyAt first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
- Orhan PamukRecord-breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince drove significantly higher results in children`s book publishing and distribution and for the company overall,
- Richard RobinsonAny time you are acquiring music or hiring anyone to create music, there are sophisticated legal issues relating not only to ownership, but also to who controls the performing and publishing rights.
- David StanleyI continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
- Patrick WhiteElectronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn`t deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
- Rudy RuckerPublishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
- Thomas WolfeI didn`t know anything about publishing companies. I didn`t know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know.
- Al RamadanTechnology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
- Alain VaisI started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
- Alex MuxoAustralian 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.
- Alex UrquhartEven if I have no trouble producing new work for another 40 years, the publishing industry is sure to go through some major upheavals.
- Alex UrquhartI have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
- Alexander Downer