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Now Barabbas was a publisher. Now Barabbas was a publisher.

Thomas Campbell

publishers and publishing

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A publisher is a specialised form of bank or building society, catering for customers who cannot cope with life and are therefore ... - MORE A publisher is a specialised form of bank or building society, catering for customers who cannot cope with life and are therefore forced to write about it.

Colin Haycraft

publishers and publishing

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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off... - MORE The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

Raymond Chandler

style

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To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.... A message from the gods shoul... - MORE To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.... A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honourable to which a man can be called?

Aleister Crowley

publishers and publishing

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Well, if I have to choose one or the other,
I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer... - MORE Well, if I have to choose one or the other,
I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer
With an income in cash of, say, a thousand
(From, say, a publisher in New York City).
It's restful to arrive at a decision,
And restful just to think about New Hampshire.
At present I am living in Vermont.

Robert Frost

New Hampshire | New York City | Vermont

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We that write & print have all our books predestinated—& and for me, I shall write such things as the Great Publisher of Mankind... - MORE We that write & print have all our books predestinated—& and for me, I shall write such things as the Great Publisher of Mankind ordained ages before he published "The World"Mthis planet, I mean—not the Literary Globe.

Herman Melville

predestination | authorship | determination

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Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States—first... - MORE Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States—first, murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.

H.L. Mencken

Lincoln, Abraham | publishers and publishing

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He turned out to belong to the type of publisher who dreams of becoming a male muse to his author, and our brief conjunction ended... - MORE He turned out to belong to the type of publisher who dreams of becoming a male muse to his author, and our brief conjunction ended abruptly upon his suggesting I replace chess by music and make Luzhin a demented violinist.

Vladimir Nabokov

writers and writing | authorship

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I'd take the bus downtown with my mother, and the big thing was to sit at the counter and get an orange drink and a tuna sandwich ... - MORE I'd take the bus downtown with my mother, and the big thing was to sit at the counter and get an orange drink and a tuna sandwich on toast. I thought I was living large!... When I was at the Ritz with the publisher a few months ago, I did think, "Oh my God, I'm in the Ritz tearoom." ... The person who was so happy to sit at the Woolworths counter is now sitting at the Ritz, listening to the harp, and wondering what tea to order.... [ellipsis in source] Am I awake?

Connie Porter

achievement | success

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The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health—congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of ... - MORE The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health—congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.

Calvin Trillin

talk shows

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