America Quote by Mark Twain

America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the…

— Bill Nye

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

— Stephen Kinzer

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real…

— Alan Lightman

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“For publishers are not just employers and financial risk-takers: they are also cultural mediators and arbitrators of quality and taste.”

— John B. Thompson

“I want to kill every best-seller list and encourage Americans to discover for themselves inspired new literature that will endure in perpetuity. Let’s pluck…

— David B. Lentz

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

— Anne Bernays

American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our culture. The influences are endless, linking us with the…

— Robert Kennedy

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Authors have a nationality; books do not.

— Leila Slimani

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

— Manuel Puig

With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at Melville House,…

— Adam Morris