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Related I think if you go out and talk to publishers, there is very much a sense that digital publishing is ... MIKE SEGROVES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented peop... J. A. KONRATH Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publis... ALEKSANDAR HEMON A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make m... MICHAEL A. STACKPOLE The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those read... SETH GODIN Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON We knew this was going to be a challenging year in publishing, as it was for the industry. CHRISTIE HEFNER Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Our conference is focused on helping authors be more successful in selling their books. Although Inf... TOM GREGORY The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they woul... VICTORIA STRAUSS Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing... M. J. ROSE I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?'... RYAN LILLY The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could;... BEN KATCHOR I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Digital publishing technology is opening new doors to new authors, ... The Xerox Aspiring Authors pr... ANNE MULCAHY Digital publishing technology is opening new doors to new authors, ... The Xerox Aspiring Authors pr... ANNE M. MULCAHY He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The general sessions did a great job in presenting a top down view of the industry as a whole, manag... MARK ADELSON Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publis... EDAN LEPUCKI Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... CRAIG GROESCHEL Publishing now is more than publishing for print, and more than publishing for the Web, ... It's rea... JOHN WARNOCK The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There is a need in the community to become united. There is a lack of knowledge of other cultures th... JAVIER RAMIREZ The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Self-publishing got a bad rap because there were too many people publishing things that weren't fit ... CATHY STUCKER I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, i... ALAN MOORE It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more ... BURNING SPEAR We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where... JOHNNY RIVERS I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It ... OLIVIA GOLDSMITH You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I don't view our approach as negative. I view our approach that when you have a candidate in a R... CHUCK FLEISCHMANN There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We ne... JOHN GREEN The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was ... JASON EPSTEIN An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-o... JEFF LEMIRE You gotta remember: we're musicians... we're just crazy people who can't get along somet... COREY TAYLOR How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting... CALVIN HARRIS When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still op... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Despite the exceptional efforts of a number of talented publishers and editors, the publishing formu... NORMAN PEARLSTINE
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ROBERT KENNEDY The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. ROBERT KENNEDY Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in... ROBERT KENNEDY I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because... ROBERT KENNEDY When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them s... ROBERT KENNEDY Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc... ROBERT KENNEDY The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Commu... ROBERT KENNEDY There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousin... ROBERT KENNEDY It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour... ROBERT KENNEDY Now I can go back to being ruthless again. ROBERT KENNEDY The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some... ROBERT KENNEDY We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh... ROBERT KENNEDY I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t... ROBERT KENNEDY From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o... ROBERT KENNEDY Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste... ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di... ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p... ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a... ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th... ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental... ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha... ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan... ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ... ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ... ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec... ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th... ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi... ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl... ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno... ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive... ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth. ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ... ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced. ROBERT KENNEDY