I should have my own publishing companies.

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

— Tucker Max

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

— Tucker Max

For the most part, it's straight white men running these labels and publishing companies.

— Justin Tranter

Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.

— Belinda Carlisle

Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.

— Vantile Whitfield

“Being self-published makes me no less "published" than the authors who are with publishing companies.”

— Adrienne Thompson

The majority of the wealth of human knowledge is owned by a few publishing companies that hoard information and make billions off licensing fees,…

— Abby Martin

I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on…

— Jabari Asim

Commerce is abusive. It's very hobbling to always be saying, 'Please let me put this out, this thing I've worked on for years.' It's…

— Patti Davis

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

— Sean Parker

I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a kiss-and-tell book,…

— Linda Ronstadt

Since I'm known for recording other artists' material, I'm absolutely deluged with mail from all the publishing companies. They take all the songs that've…

— Paul Young

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers,…

— Solomon Burke

I like my own company.

— Anne Reid

I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.

— Anonymous