Publishers Quotes · Page 4

“People don't know they want to become an author until they meet me.”

— Lucas J. Robak

You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

— George Sand

Artists deserve more than a check cut in half eight times by publishers.

— Jack Conte

For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.

— David Dunn

I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.

— Gene Weingarten

“Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

— Willa Cather

Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.

— Mathias Dopfner

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed…

— Peter Sotos

I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.

— Paul Auster

“For publishers are not just employers and financial risk-takers: they are also cultural mediators and arbitrators of quality and taste.”

— John B. Thompson

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on…

— Alan Parsons

“Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!”

— George Gissing

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression…

— Samuel Beckett

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't…

— Dean Koontz

Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea,…

— Dean Koontz

Comics publishers are used to looking in a very, very narrow focused prism. It's like when I started writing 'X-Men.' Our 'meat…

— Chris Claremont

When I finish a book, I'll go to that file and look through them. And I'll say, these are three that really…

— Matt de la Pena

I tell my students all the time is, for better or worse, no publisher is going to come wrench your story out…

— Melissa Febos

Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are…

— Steven Pressfield

You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write…

— Stefan Heym

I was invited by a publisher to write the text for Tantra.[1] Having done some research, what fascinated me was the evidence…

— Indra Sinha

We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the…

— Robert Gottlieb

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls)…

— Calvin Trillin

During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to…

— Jacques Derrida

Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all…

— Alan Rusbridger

I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do…

— Nora Roberts

To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible,…

— Diablo Cody

I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a…

— F. Paul Wilson

My agent came to me with a deal from another publisher and I signed a deal and got the advance with no…

— Mark McNairy

I was interested in creating things that I could be proud of and so, you know, I was interested in being an…

— Richard Branson

I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't…

— Tony Kushner

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

— Peter Brimelow

“Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it”

— John Lennon

Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.

— John Updike

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

— Jackie Collins

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

— Anne Bernays

Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

— Marshall McLuhan