Books Quote by Cass Canfield

“If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a part of…

— Terena Scott

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

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will…

— Jasper Fforde

“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

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

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

— Fay Weldon

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

— Oscar Wilde

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to…

— Margaret Atwood

Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule…

— John Creasey

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

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a…

— Robert Barr

My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between books" to…

— Tom Robinson