Money Quote by Michael Moore

Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to…

— Herman Melville

I will not buck to pressure of delivering to publishers.

— Sudha Murty

This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

— Ann Patchett

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

— Anonymous

Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.

— Michael Ian Black

I tell my students all the time is, for better or worse, no publisher is going to come wrench your story out of your…

— Melissa Febos

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

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

— David Baldacci

“KEEP BOOKS DANGEROUS Support small press publishers, writers, & artists.”

— Hosho McCreesh

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to…

— Lee Child

Publishing is a tough business.

— Carole Radziwill

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

— Buchi Emecheta