Commercial Quote by Arundhati Roy

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

— Willa Cather

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

— Salman Rushdie

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

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get…

— Kate Thompson

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

— Rebecca West

Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before…

— Warren Leight

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

— Tucker Max

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

— Fay Weldon

That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

— Joan Didion

Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

— Salman Rushdie

I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because print media…

— Alonso Duralde

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

— Michael Gartner