“ Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
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“ I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
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“ I can't say I knew very much about the magazine,... I've had lots of telephone interviews with magazines... I don't have to agree with their views. ”
- John Ashcroft- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I think that I shall never seeA billboard lovely as a tree.Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,I'll never see a tree at all. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I felt the function of a photograph was to have it seen by as many people as possible and the newspaper is one of the best ways or the magazine. ”
- Ben Shahn- Copy
- 1.7K
“ A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled. ”
- Francois Rabelais- Copy
- 3.2K
“ If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. ”
- Alan Paton- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely. ”
- Greg Egan- Copy
- 3K
“ News, news, news-that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper. ”
- Arthur Christiansen- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Issuance of equity and of bonds by lower-rated corporations has come virtually to a halt — even investment-grade companies have cut back substantially on their borrowings. ”
- Alan Greenspan- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper mill. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain… ”
- Joyce Kilmer- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples. ”
- John Updike- Copy
- 1K
“ I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you — and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off… ”
- Newton Norman Minow- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished. ”
- Haruki Murakami- Copy
- 3K
“ I realized that I wanted to be a writer. But I wasn't sure I would be until I was fifteen or so. At that time I had immodestly started sending stories to magazines and literary quarterlies. Of course no writer ever forgets his first acceptance; but one fine day when I was seventeen, I had my first, second, and third, all in the same morning's mail… ”
- Truman Capote- Copy
- 3.5K
“ In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. ”
- Hugo Black- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
- 484
“ Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
- 913
“ In general I do not draw well with literary men — not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 2.3K
“ News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 3.5K
“ One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. ”
- David Hilbert- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A publication depends on a great idea, not there being a market out there. You start with an idea rather than trying to get an idea which goes with that market. ”
- Andrew Heiskell- Copy
- 561
“ I never dreamed of publication and I never thought about success. Sometimes I wonder what it is doing to me as a person. I really value being good. ”
- Laurel Lee- Copy
- 3.7K
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