Beautiful Quote by Gene Stratton-Porter

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

— Frederick Busch

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

— Anonymous

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you…

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Fay Weldon

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

— David Baldacci

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with…

— George Bernard Shaw

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want…

— Victoria Chang

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

— Anonymous

You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the…

— Larry Winget

One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare…

— Marilyn Nelson

I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.

— Ava Max

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

— James Goodnight