Authors Quote by Stephen Kinzer

[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

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

— Willa Cather

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.

— Anthony Horowitz

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

— Anonymous

Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.

— Frederick Busch

My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors,…

— David Edelstein

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair!…

— Jackie Collins

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

— Matthew Specktor

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

— John B. Thompson

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

— Fay Weldon

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.

— Anita Elberse