Books Quote by Anonymous

It is said that an Author won't become a great writer until they've suffered. I guess I'm in the throws of a Best Seller…

— Christel Tait

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

— Fay Weldon

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

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

— Willa Cather

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

— V. S. Naipaul

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 get published…

— Tony Kushner

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

— James Purdy

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of…

— Dennis Potter

A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my…

— Patrick deWitt

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

— Jacqueline Leo