publishing, n.Definitions

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

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

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 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.

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

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