Able Quote by David Baldacci

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

— Fay Weldon

My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until…

— Lisa Jewell

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to…

— Lee Child

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

— Charles Stross

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

— Louise Brown

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

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

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

— Anne Bernays

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do…

— Rose Macaulay

My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive when there's…

— Julia Glass

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

— Anonymous

I will not buck to pressure of delivering to publishers.

— Sudha Murty