Blood relatives Quote by Garrison Keillor

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

— Manuel Puig

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and…

— Erica Jong

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more…

— Tracy Chevalier

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 seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

— James Purdy

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

— Willa Cather

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

— Anne Bernays

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

— Fay Weldon

I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published…

— Tony Kushner

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

— Sarah Dessen

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

— Nicholas Sparks

“Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.”

— Rayne Hall