publishing, n.All

Jimmy Carter has published more books (24) than any other U.S. president.

Publishing is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Publishing is a process leading from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

Publishing is a kind of exhibitionism. A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Publishing is courageously putting aside the thought that one's work might have been better done. Not doing so means every one of your conceptions will remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

Publishing is done to writing in order to avoid spending one's life correcting it: One publishes a book in order to leave it behind, in order to forget it.

Publishing is putting one's inadequacies on full display to one's publisher. No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

Publishing is not a very difficult business - most people are so bad at it that it is very easy to look good.

Publishing is all about knowing people. The only advice one can really give a young novelist is to fuck a really good agent.