Publishers Quotes · Page 2

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

— John Updike

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

— Willa Cather

I read whatever the publisher sends me.

— Kate DiCamillo

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

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

— Marshall McLuhan

Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally.

— Dietrich Mateschitz

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

— Jasper Fforde

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

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

My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

— Jennifer Weiner

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain…

— Bill Bryson

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

— David Baldacci

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

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

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but…

— Doris Lessing

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me…

— Leslie Banks

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is…

— Marjane Satrapi

Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you…

— Eden Robinson

My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type…

— Judy Blume

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

My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign…

— Sara Zarr

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

— Owen Wilson

The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and…

— Calvin Trillin

As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon…

— Judith Thurman

If you feel like keeping a journal-that neither you nor anyone else on earth will ever want to read-be my guest. But…

— Robert Masello

“The novel was rejected by thirty publishers”

— Alan Griffin

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

— Oscar Wilde

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

— Richard Curtis

I will not buck to pressure of delivering to publishers.

— Sudha Murty

You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.”

— Anonymous

Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.

— Heather Brooke

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

— Mark Millar