Before Quote by William T. Vollmann

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.

— Anthony Horowitz

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

— Willa Cather

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints…

— Alan Moore

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a…

— Mark Twain

[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

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

— John B. Thompson

In the war time many of the publishing houses were privately owned, a single publisher or a publisher and a few associates who were…

— James Salter

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

There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is…

— Denise Mina

I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the…

— Philip Pullman

Commerce is abusive. It's very hobbling to always be saying, 'Please let me put this out, this thing I've worked on for years.' It's…

— Patti Davis

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all ottom line editors; everything depends on the money.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti