Quotes for All
To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that’s how you do … Read more
A lot of people get to the point in their careers where blurbs are ghostwritten for them, because they’re like, \”I want to support this person, it’s good for my career,\” and so they get someone at the publishing house to do it, or they copy something from the press release. People write their own … Read more
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston’s public television station. Elinor Lipman
I think it’s what any artist would want: to feel like their work can be taken in on a level of experience beyond the headline or the press release. I don’t think any artist wants to be reduced to a press release. We have a whole industry whose function it is to process and present … Read more
People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity – creative absurdity – that has completely detached from its intended object. It’s left reality behind long ago. It’s like something out of William Burroughs. David Salle
If you are a marketing professional who wants to reach your buyers directly, many experts will say that the media is the only way to tell your story, and that press releases only to reach journalists – not your buyers directly. They’ll say that bloggers are geeks in pajamas who don’t matter. They are wrong. … Read more
The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who’s happy to do that for him. … Read more
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field’s trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went aha! – because what you need … Read more
The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up Ben Parr
More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. Barbara Jordan