Publishers Quotes · Page 4

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.

— Stephen Kinzer

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an…

— Lee Child

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

— John Farrar

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

— Anne Bernays

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

— A. N. Wilson

The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him,…

— Storm Jameson

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or…

— Amish Tripathi

Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

— Erik Qualman

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your…

— Lord Byron

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

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other…

— Julian Assange

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

Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because…

— Johnny Rivers

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used…

— Otis Blackwell

My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction,…

— David Edelstein

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one…

— Anita Pallenberg

In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these…

— Leila Fadel

To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but…

— Barbara Tuchman

Ebooks represent a shift from a culture of scarcity to a culture of abundance. In the past, publishing required a great deal…

— David Gerrold

Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale,…

— Emma Goldman

I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for…

— Markus Zusak

The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every…

— Robert Scheer

“I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put…

— Jack McClelland

When new pages are sent to editors and see rejection, we should ask for the reasons. We must study the reasons for…

— Jean Giraud

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how…

— Tahir Shah

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

— John Lennon

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

— Scott McClanahan

People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

— Roger McNamee

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

— Anonymous

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or…

— Margaret Atwood

Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website.

— Mike McCue

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

— Paul Johnson

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book…

— Robert Benchley

Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.

— Nick Denton

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in…

— Brian Patten

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

— Dean Koontz

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for…

— Paul Kane

Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really…

— Jennifer Armintrout

My British publisher has this independent press. It's pretty small; they actually won last year. And she's got this great energy, and…

— Paul Beatty