Art Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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

— Anonymous

I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry. Book publishing…

— Graeme Base

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

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do…

— Rose Macaulay

Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were…

— Gil Kane

There are a lot of global decisions that you can make as a co-publisher, and only publishers can make those kind of decisions. At…

— Jim Lee

I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the…

— Philip Pullman

After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for them and…

— Jonathan Evison

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

— Fay Weldon

I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

— Michael Korda

I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“For publishers are not just employers and financial risk-takers: they are also cultural mediators and arbitrators of quality and taste.”

— John B. Thompson