Publishers Quotes

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

Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.

— Walter Cronkite

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

— P. D. James

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

— Hosho McCreesh

Publishers and record companies love a broken heart.

— Donovan

Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.

— Lionel Shriver

“Don't cry for publishers, paper books ain't dying.”

— Declan Conner

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“I have female friends that get mails from publishers that read 'Hey. I heard you write about sex. This is a very…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

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

— Alma Gluck

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

— Jack Canfield

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

— Marco Arment

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

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

— Austin O'Malley

I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more…

— Stan Lee

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

— Sue Grafton

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time,…

— Karl Marlantes

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial…

— George Bernard Shaw

The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one…

— John Banville

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

— Tao Lin

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things…

— Mark Twain

The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they…

— Terry Pratchett

When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know,…

— James Patterson

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 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

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars…

— Helen Garner

I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way…

— Matt Groening

We're in the media business today. We're in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that's…

— Otis Chandler

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

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

— Doris Lessing

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

— Steve Case

“GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers New York”

— Arthur Scott Bailey

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

— Christopher Hitchens

Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

— David Meerman Scott

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

— Heinrich Heine

“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

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

— John Updike