Publishers Quotes · Page 5

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

— Storm Jameson

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred…

— Alan Davies

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

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

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 am thrilled to be a member of the Kobalt family. I've never felt so taken care of on every level. As…

— Desmond Child

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

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

— Brian Patten

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

I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites. But if there was a mini-comic here…

— Adrian Tomine

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

— Robert Scheer

To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which,…

— Rupert Murdoch

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some…

— Anne Lamott

I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the…

— John F. Kennedy

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

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.

— Chet Williamson

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

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess…

— Jay McInerney

What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but…

— Jeremy Robinson

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate…

— Mark Millar

As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before -…

— William T. Vollmann