Able Quote by Gil Kane

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

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

— David Baldacci

People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And…

— Amanda Hocking

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

I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap.

— Frank McCourt

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

— Richard Curtis

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

— John B. Thompson

Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.

— Lionel Shriver

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.

— Eric Brown

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

— Louise Brown

Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to…

— John Hodgman

I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn't move to the larger presses until they knew…

— Lydia Davis