Banging Quote by Nick Bantock

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off…

— Jonathan Coe

I wrote for my high school and college newspapers. It was my only creative outlet in those days.

— Soupy Sales

When I was doing it, I just thought, 'I'm going to do this because it's fun.' I wasn't writing for a publisher or a…

— Anna Todd

Creative process gives me the most freedom because I can do anything I want on a piece of blank media.

— Sasha Pivovarova

Getting published was like God stamping you 'acceptable,' and all of a sudden you can start writing for other places.

— Steven Rinella

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

— David Baldacci

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means…

— Graham Swift

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

I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.

— Ava Max

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

— A. N. Wilson

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.

— John Cariani