Tyler Oakley Quotes

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

YouTube is so quick and so instant, and you make a video, and you can upload it the same day, whereas with a book, you have to go through a lot of time and a lot of people and a lot of processes. So it was weird to sit down and work with other people on projects, because I'm so independent with YouTube.

Part of making TV is the process - you just have to churn it out.

Some scenes comes together really quickly, and some scenes are disasters that take forever. But it sort of works itself out over time.

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

One thing I can say right off the bat is that creating great editorial is a huge challenge, and you can't help but go through the process and not appreciate how valuable this skill is, and how much I admire the people who do this every day.

New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.