Publishers Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors,…

— David Edelstein

“The most understandable trap is to wait for fear to subside before starting one’s journey. It doesn’t, won’t, and shouldn’t. Too much good writing…

— Ralph Keyes

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

— David Baldacci

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

— Barry Mann

“Readers have some peculiar notions about the status of writers, the most foolish of which is that writers are treated like royalty by their…

— Reed Farrel Coleman

One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and…

— Walter Kirn

“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

— Edna O'Brien

“The irony that all writers confront and must overcome is that the writer is afraid to commence, frightened to finish what is slowly becoming…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

— A. Lee Martinez

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

— Fay Weldon