Quotes by Publishers

The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse.
Dave Eggers
A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.So does gossip.
Vera Nazarian
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.
Leonard Woolf
Did you ever think about writing memoirs? You are a writer, and it may be interesting for people to read your story."I hate memoirs. But I am sure I will write a book about the Bowery Mission,” Michael said.
Stevan V. Nikolic
Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you’ve got is a empty fist and a lot of regret.
Benjamin Wood
Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D'Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?
Margaret Anderson
It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing
Sol Stein
Begin your writing, fiction or article, where the action begins. This action can be internal (e.g., an important insight or personal decision) or external (e.g., a murder or calamity). Begin too early, you lose your reader. Begin too late, you lose your story.
Walt Shiel
It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Dave Eggers
Laugh soon because you never know how soon it will be too late
Thomas F. Shubnell
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes
Work is the best method devised for killing time.
William Feather
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard.
Helen Gurley Brown
To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun?
Katherine Graham
Some words are like the old Roman galleys large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.
William Jovanovich
Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
Bennett Cerf
One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed for no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. Lucas
If you see yourself as prosperous you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up that is exactly what you will be.
Robert Collier
Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.
Frank Knox
The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
William Feather
The best preparation for a better life next year is a full complete harmonious joyous life this year.
Thomas Dreier
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
William Feather
If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year. ... Today should always be our most wonderful day.
Thomas Dreier
One of these days is none of these days.
H. G. Bohn
Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.
C. P. Scott
How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.
Malcolm Forbes
If you've had a good time playing the game you're a winner even if you lose.
Malcolm Forbes
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
James Gordon Bennett
Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement industry health. And the greatest of these is judgement.
William Maxwell Aitken
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Malcolm Forbes
If people knew what they had to do to be successful most people wouldn't.
Lord Thomson of Fleet
Once power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.
Katherine Graham
He who knows himself best esteems himself least.
H. G. Bohn
Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.
Helen Gurley Brown
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm Forbes
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.
William Feather
My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
Margaret Anderson
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
Holbrook Jackson
The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.
Margaret Anderson
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.
William Feather
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly too without a single stutter. Later he explained "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."
Bennett Cerf
If you expect nothing you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
Malcolm Forbes
After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving if you are friendly if you are helpful the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant we must think in limitless terms of abundance.
Thomas Dreier
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
If you're looking for perfection look in the mirror. If you find it there expect it elsewhere.
Malcolm Forbes
You can do anything you wish to do have anything you wish to have be anything you wish to be.
Robert Collier
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally. ... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? . . . You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
That they may have a little peace even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
William Feather
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas
Do each daily task the best we can act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
William Feather
We all find time to do what we really want to do.
William Feather
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.
James Gordon Bennett
Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.
William Randolph Hearst
The next time it begins to rain ... lie down on your belly nestle your chin into the grass and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall . . . The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world.
Malcolm Margolin
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
Holbrook Jackson