America Quote by Manuel Puig

“In TIME June 7, 2010 On the sustainability of the publishing industry, in the Chicago Tribune: "I think that book publishing is about to…

— Garrison Keillor

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

— Willa Cather

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

— Fay Weldon

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

— Tucker Max

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell…

— W. P. Kinsella

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

— Anne Bernays

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 have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned savings -…

— Ruskin Bond

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

— William Targ

It's true that the young who now flock to script writing, or producing and directing, to fulfill the demands of these new devices would,…

— Cynthia Ozick

Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

— Michael Dirda

It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break…

— Jim C. Hines