Both Quote by Jim Lee

Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.

— Mathias Dopfner

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 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

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Louise Brown

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

— David Baldacci

We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone…

— Robert Gottlieb

Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

— Piers Anthony

When I realized that I can invest in my own marketing and do exactly what I think needs to be done - well, then…

— Anna Todd

In the war time many of the publishing houses were privately owned, a single publisher or a publisher and a few associates who were…

— James Salter

Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three…

— John Battelle