George: With every crash of every wave, I hear something now. I never listened before. I'm on the edge of a cliff, listening. Almost finished. [pause] George: If you were a house , Sam, this is where you would want to be built: on rock, facing the se...
George: What would you do if you had three or four months to live? Nurse #1: Um... I'd eat a lot of red meat? George: Good for you. Nurse #1: What would you do? George: Build a house.
Hoover: We're in trouble. I just checked with the guys at the Jewish house and they said that every one of our answers on the Psych test was wrong. Boon: Every one? [looks at Bluto and D-Day] Boon: Those assholes must have stolen the wrong fucking ex...
Teddy Brewster: [Mr. Witherspoon has just met Teddy and Teddy pulls Mortimer aside] Is he trying to move into the White House before I've moved out? Mortimer Brewster: Who? Teddy Brewster: [points to Mr. Witherspoon] Taft!
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter ...
I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself.
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
A big hello from California!! And, when in doubt, self-publish, thank you smashwords.com!!!
Facebook should start publishing breakup stories. 'So and so and so and so are no longer in a relationship.' With a tombstone next to it.
Love, I wrote the book on it. Unfortunately, nobody would publish it, so I felt compelled to burn my manuscript.
I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
If I was a father, and my son told me he wanted to go out and be a publisher, I'd say, 'Go get a job.'
You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.
