Business Quote by Barry Eisler

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

— Nicholas Sparks

A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said anything yet…

— Elmore Leonard

[On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can't get at it, or you publish…

— Sylvia Beach

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

— Manuel Puig

It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having…

— Tucker Max

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

— Lisa Unger

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

— William Targ

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

— Henry R. Luce

Publishing is a business. It's about squeezing every last dollar out of every available source, and the most vulnerable source is the author. No…

— Thomas Hauser

There's been a huge blank space in publishing - business books and books by founders are almost always by men. There are so few…

— Kendra Scott

“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

— Nicholas Sparks