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An editor once said to me, "If I didn't know that you, a woman, had written these poems, I would like your work." And once an edit ...
Some said, John, print it; others said, Not so:
Some said, It might do good; others said, No.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.
Now Barabbas was a publisher.
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to ...
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish ...
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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 ...
What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell.
"Why don't you finally publish your works?" My friend, in bad weather one had better stay home.
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