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.
The kitten I got is black and white and has long hair. Really long hair (think Willie Nelson). I decided to call him Cap’n because his markings make him look like a pirate. The majority of his face is white, except over his left eye is a black patc...
However, my next-door neighbors had an entirely different manner of eating. When I’d go over there for dinner, it was buffet style, only a truly global sampling. Beluga caviar from Iran, with each individual egg handpicked with as much consideratio...
When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he exposed the world to a momentous discovery . For the first time in history, human beings were seen not as creatures of divine origin, but instead, as a product of nature, an animal li...
[Lord Horror] was so unique and radical, I expected to go to prison for it. I always thought that if you wrote a truly dangerous book -- something dangerous would happen to you. Which is one reason there are so few really dangerous books around. Publ...
Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -
The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish,' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.
Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.
