Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their…

It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could…

— Christopher Hitchens

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair!…

— Jackie Collins

Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.

— Lionel Shriver

Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print…

— Bob Colacello

Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book, you never…

— Nick Laird

Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on…

— Ruth Glick

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

— Richard Dawkins

Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

— Kevin Sampsell

I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing…

— Washed Out

I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing…

— El DeBarge

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty…

— Charles Bukowski

“Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of other writers…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Writers write like readers and read like writers.”

— Laura Hamilton

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

— Jim Shepard

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

— Steven Moffat