Genre Quote by Emma Donoghue

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

— Fay Weldon

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Like most new writers, I could only hope that one day one publisher might agree to publish one of my books; I couldn't imagine…

— Emma Healey

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

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

— Anne Bernays

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

— Willa Cather

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

— Anonymous

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

— Louise Brown

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

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

— Dan Brown

“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