I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher. — Roger McNamee Copy Share Image
Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks. — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define. — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
More and more readers are finding important and interesting content through platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and now Medium rather than traditional publishers. — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no… — James Frey Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits.… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
I actually produced other people's vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers… — Carson Ellis Copy Share Image
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
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,… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I was interested in creating things that I could be proud of and so, you know, I was interested in being an… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
