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So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the…

— Gunter Grass

“I find it very disturbing to be advertised, as I have noticed that it is the advertised authors that stink. I am pretty sure…

— E. B. White

The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is…

— Clive James

My books have all generated controversy.

— Helen Fielding

After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with…

— Margaret Atwood

“The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously.…

— Jack McClelland

Getting published was like God stamping you 'acceptable,' and all of a sudden you can start writing for other places.

— Steven Rinella

There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours…

— Michael Longley

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He…

— E. M. Forster

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

— Anne Bernays

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real…

— Alan Lightman

For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to…

— Stockwell Day