Autobiographies Quote by Anita Pallenberg

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

— Fay Weldon

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

— Anne Bernays

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not…

— Chad Harbach

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

“And if publishers are too skittish to bite—sell it as goddamn fiction. Make yourself the author and change the names if necessary. Do whatever…

— Joshua V. Scher

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM,…

— Susie Bright

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

— Jay McInerney

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address…

— Kiran Desai

“All aspiring writers say these things: "I will not compromise and write a best seller!"—as if they could! There may be a few totally…

— May Sarton

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

— Emma Donoghue

I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum,…

— Dean Koontz