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.
My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God
When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.
[...] she hadn't realised how much she missed the company of women who laughed, women who spoke their own minds, women who didn't give a shit for anything.
