On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.
I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.
Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.
When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.
I never thought my ideas would actually get published.
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
So I’m alone. I have no one. Is that what you’re telling me?” - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013)
It's okay to write crap. Just don't try publishing it while it's still crap.
There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.
Being an author, writing a book was great fun. Publishing and marketing, not so fun.
