Publishers Quotes

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

— P. D. James

Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

— Mark Twain

Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

— David Meerman Scott

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

— Heinrich Heine

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

— Eduardo Galeano

“GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers New York”

— Arthur Scott Bailey

I am my brain's publisher.

— Philippe Starck

Happiness is a form of courage.

— Holbrook Jackson

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

— Mario Benedetti

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.

— Dwight L. Moody

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

— Henry David Thoreau

No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.

— Dave Sim

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

— Jasper Fforde

“KEEP BOOKS DANGEROUS Support small press publishers, writers, & artists.”

— Hosho McCreesh

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

— Thomas M. Disch

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

— A. J. Liebling

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every…

— Alma Gluck

No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I…

— Oscar Wilde

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out…

— Robert Benchley

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

— Jack Canfield

My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my…

— Tao Lin

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection…

— Julianna Baggott

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain,…

— Sue Grafton

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

— Daniel Ek

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer…

— Barry Eisler

In a day when broadcasters and publishers have rather free access into our homes, we must seek clean, uplifting entertainment, whether on…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world,…

— Lev Grossman

Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't…

— Kirby Larson

I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title.…

— Andrew Aydin

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend…

— Hunter S. Thompson

We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like…

— Kathryn Minshew

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe…

— Jami Attenberg

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…

— Doris Lessing

“In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice--that…

— Bryan Stevenson

For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple…

— Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know…

— William O. Douglas

I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the…

— Owen Wilson

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits… Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises…

— John Adams

The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It…

— Doris Lessing

One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a…

— Rob Huebel