Quotes About Control

You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.

The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.

The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

I should have my own publishing companies.

Don't sell your publishing.

Don't sign your publishing away.

Self-publishing provides more freedom and control, but it also provides more risk. Publishing provides more credibility and promotion, but your vision can also get lost in the bureaucratic machinery of the business. It's a tough decision to make.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

I have seen pretty horrible blokes thinking they can do pretty much what they like over the years, not just in showbusiness but in ordinary jobs and in pubs and stuff.

I don't have a problem with a board that advises, that supervises, one with which we can have a discussion. But we will never accept a board that has control over Puerto Rico's affairs.

We are a possession of the United States. Congress has full authorization power over Puerto Rico.

I've been learning how to shoot a gun and properly handcuff people so that on the day I need to pull someone down to the ground, it looks and feels natural for me.

I consider myself to be a very good skateboarder, but the difficulty when you're being pulled behind any car, when there's only a 20-ft. line, is that you can't see the potholes.

We know the risks of birth control, and yet we continue to pump it into our system as if we have no choice.

Everyone knows my style - I jam my hips in, jam their head into the mat and punch their head through the canvas.

I legally can punch someone in the face and not get arrested for it, which most human beings can't do.

My entire career, everybody says I need to punch somebody.

You would have to go really crazy on me before I throw a punch.

I know how to use my fist, but only to punch people.

I don't go for knockout punches.