Publishers Quote by Willa Cather

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

— Fay Weldon

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

— Anne Bernays

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

— James Purdy

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

— Anonymous

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get…

— Kate Thompson

[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

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

— Emma Donoghue

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

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

— Anonymous

Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

— Michael Dirda

The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace…

— Tahir Shah

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

— Tucker Max