Publishing Quotes

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.