Blame Quote by Jerry Pinkney

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

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

— Scott Pelley

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are…

— Piers Anthony

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

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

— Emma Donoghue

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of…

— Walter Jon Williams

Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is a real…

— Graham Swift

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

— Terri Windling

I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not…

— Mac Barnett

America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think…

— A. S. Byatt

The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not…

— Doris Lessing

My goal for children's books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write a book…

— Coy Bowles