Inspirational Quote by P. D. James

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

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

— Margaret Atwood

“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've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

— Dean Koontz

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

— Anne Bernays

People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And…

— Amanda Hocking

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

— Willa Cather

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

— David Baldacci

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

— Fay Weldon

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

— Anonymous

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.

— Anthony Horowitz

Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.

— Mathias Dopfner