Booksellers Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by…

— Lafcadio Hearn

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real…

— Alan Lightman

“All writers and their readers should stand up and voice their opposition to financial services companies censoring books. Authors should have the freedom to…

— Mark Coker

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents,…

— Doris Lessing

With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel - but rarely for content, and especially not without a widespread outcry.

— Andrew Shaffer

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

— Fay Weldon

“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind…

— Margaret Bald

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of…

— Laura Miller

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

— Bertrand Russell

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are…

— Ruth Stout

“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

— Bennett Cerf