publishing quotes

The most important single thing in publishing is the English sentence, and the editor who cannot contemplate it again and again with a sense of wonder has not yet gained respect for the complexity of learning.

-William Jovanovich
  Now, Barabbas.

In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishingof hisideas, though it bringsgratifications, isa curious anti-climax.

- Alfred Kazin
  In Think, Feb.