Accepting Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

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

— Willa Cather

“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

“Your writing can be chosen by one publisher and hated by all readers, or it can be rejected by one publisher and loved by…

— Jarod Kintz

The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Writers who don’t produce copy—or leave it so long that they couldn’t possibly produce something good—are giving themselves the perfect excuse for not succeeding.”

— Megan McArdle

“Writers live with fear. Some writers cannot deal with the fear, and so they quit or refuse to publish. In order to write, you…

— Patrick Mcmanus

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of…

— Laura Miller

“Even if you never get published, no one can take away your joy in writing, which is why you should be doing it anyway.”

— Jennifer Dechiara

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me.…

— Anais Nin

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

— Gore Vidal

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

— Fay Weldon

“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