Books Quote by Thomas Hauser

Publishing is a business. It's about squeezing every last dollar out of every available source, and the most vulnerable source is the author. No…

— Thomas Hauser

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates…

— John Green

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

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

— Fay Weldon

We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very…

— Richard Curtis

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

— Joseph O'Neill

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will…

— Jasper Fforde

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a…

— Robert Barr

I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a kiss-and-tell book,…

— Linda Ronstadt

I have one very bad experience with a U.K. publisher, who gave it out to be understood that she wanted to publish my book…

— Neel Mukherjee

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

— Dan Brown

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

— Dave Eggers