Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.
– Clay Shirky
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- We’re interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we’d market them too – Alan Sugar
- And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder. – John Steinbeck
- Markings in dry clay disappearOnly when the clay is soft again.Scars upon the self disappearOnly when one becomes soft within. – MingDao Deng
- I will never understand why you Humans weren’t designed to recycle your body’s water after filtering waste. It’s just so much more efficient. – Bryan Fields
- When you read without an open mind, you’re already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance. – Unarine Ramaru
- He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones. – David Halberstam
- Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- With strength you can move rocks.With faith you can move mountains.With love you can move the world. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember.Move. Move. While others sleep, move. – Anthony ONeill
- Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens. – Paul Collier
- Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change -“ it can not only move us, it makes us move. – Ossie Davis
- Nothing in nature happens voluntarily. Everything is forced to happen. There is a hidden hand that forces things to move. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Lust makes you weak, passion makes you strong, love makes you brave, and heartache makes you wise. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Knowledge makes you strong,understanding makes you formidable,wisdom makes you powerful,and love makes you invincible. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it. – Maria McCann
- Publishing is definitely something you do because you enjoy educating or entertaining people. – Steven Magee
- When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical. – Anthony Paletta
- The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry. – Alexei Maxim Russell
- A man’s sexual organ is ????? and woman’s sexual organ is brains. – DK Publishing
- Being an author, writing a book was great fun. Publishing and marketing, not so fun. – Wynne Stevens
- Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books. – Johnny Rich
- Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them. – Michelle M Pillow
- I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing. – Mary Sage Nguyen
- I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They’re like, ‘Who is this guy?’ And I’m like, ‘the end of your industry. – Ryan Lilly
- It’s called publishing. It’s how smart people install new ideas into other peoples brains. – Steven Magee
- Facebook should start publishing breakup stories. ‘So and so and so and so are no longer in a relationship.’ With a tombstone next to it. – Judy Balan
- Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak. – Michelle M Pillow
- Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world. – Molly Friedenfeld
- You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding. – Brad Thor