Book publishing Quote by John B. Thompson

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a…

— Carlos Fuentes

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

— Willa Cather

“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap and severe…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and…

— Harlan Ellison

“Book publishing is a passion that one hopes eventually becomes a good paying job.”

— Steven Magee

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him…

— Robert Benchley

“It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He…

— Russell Grandinetti

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

— Ben Katchor

“Books exceed authors' lifespan.”

— Toba Beta

“From Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story, re: the travel book boom of the 1970s Surprisingly, none of the new developments in travel publishing…

— Tony Wheeler

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him…

— Robert Benchley

“As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at…

— Sara Sheridan