Backfire Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the…

— Peter Sotos

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

— Dean Koontz

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

— Anne Bernays

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

— Anonymous

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

— Anonymous

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

— Fay Weldon

Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.

— Lionel Shriver

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

If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think…

— Peter Sotos

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

— Willa Cather

We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone…

— Robert Gottlieb

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

— David Baldacci