Publishers Famous Quotes & Sayings

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love. — Julia Glass

Effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are two steps removed from a number associated with a terrorist organization instead of three. — Barack Obama

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private. — Sam Harris

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society. — Jacques Attali

I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller. — Jose Andres

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. — Marilynne Robinson

But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier. — Aaron Swartz

HE DIDN'T RENT Hairspray or Harold and Maude. A few minutes after Sam left, after standing dumbly for a while in the Hs, Lincoln decided he didn't feel like going home anymore. He didn't feel like sitting still or being quiet. He left the Blockbuster empty-handed and stopped just outside to toss Sam's business card into the trash. — Rainbow Rowell

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. — Helen Dunmore

Violence never solves anything. — Genghis Khan

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. — Confucius

I was the girl with cake batter in her hair, egg on her shirt and her foot in her mouth. Always. — Kari Luna

Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while. — Victoria Strauss

It's true. I've seen it when the crescent moon shone bright on a cold, dark night. The darker the night, the brighter God's smile. — Anusha Atukorala

Faith makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook favorable, and the future glorious. — V. Raymond Edman

He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue. — Arthur Symons